Kamui Fujiwara

Here's the thing about Kamui Fujiwara: he spent six years drawing the Dragon Quest: Emblem of Roto saga across 21 volumes, filling every panel with that famously meticulous linework — clearly a guy who studied Katsuhiro Otomo's draftsmanship and took it as a personal challenge — and yet most people who played those Dragon Quest games growing up couldn't tell you his name. That's not a knock, it's almost the point. He's a craftsman in the old sense, somebody who let the work carry the weight instead of himself, quietly earning an honorable mention in the Tezuka Award back in 1979 before most of his readers were born. Born in Arakawa, Tokyo, pen name drawn from the Ainu word for a god of creation — there's a quiet confidence in that choice for a kid in high school. The fact that Emblem of Roto is finally getting an official English release in the 2020s says everything about staying power.

Kamui Fujiwara is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator born on January 1, 1959, in Arakawa, Tokyo. He is known under the name Kamui Fujiwara and maintains an official website as well as a presence on X (formerly Twitter). Most personal details, including his active period and debut, are not publicly disclosed.

Name (English)

Kamui Fujiwara

Name (Japanese)

藤原カムイ

Reading

ふじわら

Born

January 1, 1959 (age 67)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Boar (i)

Origin

Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

Manga Artist / Illustrator

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www004.upp.so-net.ne.jp/studio2b/index.html
• Xhttps://x.com/kamuif
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%97%A4%E5%8E%9F%E3%82%AB%E3%83%A0%E3%82%A4

Tags

• From Tokyo
• Manga Artist
• Illustrator

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.