Legendary mangaka Mizushima Shinji known for numerous baseball manga will retire

Manga artist Mizushima Shinji (81) will be retiring on December 1st. Mizushima made his debut in 1958 and is known as the mangaka for popular baseball manga “Yakyu-kyo no Uta”, “Dokaben” and “Abu-san” and is considered a manga legend and a winner for the Shogakukan Read More …

Mizushima Shinji’s “Dokaben Dream Tournament Edition” coming to an end/”Dokaben” series began back in 1972

Mizushima Shinji is a Japanese manga aritst best known for baseball manga such as “Yakyu-kyo no Uta”, “Dokaben” and “Abu-san”. His work has been collected in well over 500 tankobon volumes and “Dokaben” is a series that generations of Japanese have grown up reading. From Read More …