Munenori Michimoto
Manga artist born in 1972. In 1992 Michimoto received an honorable mention at the 43rd Tezuka Award for "Zombie Man" and a Hop Step Award for "Gorgeous Family", which became a debut in Weekly Shōnen Jump's 1993 spring special issue. After Yatsu no Na wa Maria, Michimoto serialized the handball manga Daisuking (1999) and the masked-wrestler manga A・O・N (2002) in Weekly Shōnen Jump, and from 2008 worked as an assistant to Nobuhiro Watsuki.