Takumi Nagayasu
Takumi Nagayasu (born 1949) is a manga artist born in Nagasaki Prefecture and raised in Kumamoto. Nagayasu began as a rental-book (kashihon) gekiga artist and worked as an assistant at Kenji Nanba's studio before going independent, and is known for Ai to Makoto (story by Ikki Kajiwara) and adaptations of Jirō Asada's novels such as Mibu Gishiden. In 2024 Nagayasu received the Minister of Education Award at the 53rd Japan Cartoonists Association Awards.