Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro

Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro is a Japanese manga artist who debuted in Weekly Shounen Jump in 1996 and received an Akatsuka Award for new comic manga writers. He created Seikimatsu Leader Den Takeshi!, which won the 2001 Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga, and later created Toriko. He is credited as original creator across the Toriko anime franchise and Seikimatsu Leader Gaiden Takeshi!.