Masakazu Katsura

Masakazu Katsura does two things almost nobody manages at once: superheroes and romance. Born in Fukui in 1962, he made his name with the hero series Wing-Man, spent the nineties on Video Girl Ai and I"s, among the most precisely observed portraits of adolescent longing in manga, then returned to darker heroics with Zetman. That is enormous range for one artist, and his draftsmanship is good enough that the wider industry keeps borrowing it, from Iria: Zeiram the Animation to Tiger & Bunny, Garo: Crimson Moon and the game Astral Chain. If there is a through line, it is forty years spent chasing the exact moment a drawing makes you believe someone is cool, or worth wanting.

Name (English)

Masakazu Katsura

Name (Japanese)

桂正和

Born

December 10, 1962 (age 63)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Tiger

Origin

Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

mangaka / character designer / writer / comics artist

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://k2r.main.jp/
• Xhttps://x.com/MasakazuKatsura
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A1%82%E6%AD%A3%E5%92%8C

Tags

• Fukui Prefecture
• mangaka
• character designer
• writer

Last updated

2026-07-27

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.