Norihiro Yagi
Norihiro Yagi is a Japanese manga artist born in 1968 in Naha, Okinawa. He debuted in 1990 with "UNDEADMAN", a winner at the 32nd Akatsuka Award, and serialized Angel Densetsu (1993–2000) and then Claymore (from 2001) in Monthly Shōnen Jump; after that magazine folded in 2007, Claymore ran side stories in Weekly Shōnen Jump before moving to Jump SQ, where it ended in 2014, and Yagi later created Sōkyū no Ariadne in Weekly Shōnen Sunday.