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Masami Kurumada

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Masami Kurumada

Born Dec 6, 1953 · 72 years21 titles 7 movies · 14 TV
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Masami Kurumada (車田 正美, Kurumada Masami, born December 6, 1953) is a Japanese manga artist and writer, known for specializing in fighting manga featuring bishōnen and magical boy. He is the founder of the manga studio Kurumada Productions or Kurumadapro for short. He is famous as the creator/author of popular manga, such as Ring ni Kakero, Fūma no Kojirō, Saint Seiya and B't X. His male protagonists are a reflection of the classical and modern society's archetype of the true men. The male characters in his works often display very masculine qualities and traits, and pursue to achieve courage and manhood perfection through sacrifice, selflessness and true heroism. He has won the best success award with Saint Seiya and the best inspiration award with Ring ni Kakero.

Also known as

車田 正美 · 车田 正美

Born

Dec 6, 1953

Tsukishima, Tokyo, Japan

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

1

Acting credits

0

Directing

16

Writing

6

Other crew

Most critically rated

Highest TMDB score (min 100 votes)

Most commercially successful

Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)

Career timeline

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1986 2 title(s)

1988 1 title(s)

1989 2 title(s)

1992 1 title(s)

1996 1 title(s)

2002 1 title(s)

2004 2 title(s)

2009 1 title(s)

2012 1 title(s)

2014 1 title(s)

2015 1 title(s)

2018 2 title(s)

2019 1 title(s)

2023 1 title(s)

2026 1 title(s)

Undated 2 title(s)