Tosio Syozi
Japanese manga artist born January 25, 1941, from Nagasaki Prefecture. After junior high school he worked in a coal mine by day while drawing at night, placed in a Shueisha magazine contest in 1960, and turned professional around 1962 after assisting Hiroshi Kaizuka. He published Ore wa Kamikaze and Katsu made Nakuna! in Shonen Jump; his best-known work is Cycle Yarou, serialized in Shonen King from 1971 to 1979.