Artist

Nobuyuki Fukumoto

福本伸行

Mangaka

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Kaidomi catalogues Nobuyuki Fukumoto as Mangaka. The catalogue records 12 title-backed credits. Documented work includes Made in Abyss, Yamada and the Seven Witches and Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun. This artist hub connects works, roles and official profiles.

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Nobuyuki Fukumoto is a Japanese manga artist well known throughout the Far East for his unique original gambling ideas, deep psychological analysis of characters and distinct artstyle. Yakuza and gambling are recurring themes in his manga.

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In English language countries, he is most famous as the author of Akagi, a mahjong-related manga. In 1998, he won the Kodansha Manga Award for Tobaku Mokushiroku Kaiji. An onomatopoeia "zawa" (ざわ‥), meaning uneasy atmosphere, appears frequently in his comics and is considered Fukumoto's trademark.