Santa Inoue

Santa Inoue is the kind of creator who makes you feel slightly inadequate in the best possible way. Born in 1968, he's spent decades doing two demanding jobs at once — drawing manga and writing screenplays — and he makes that look like it's just how you do it. His manga Tokyo Tribes turned Tokyo street gang culture into something mythic and stylized long before that aesthetic went mainstream, and the fact that he could later translate his own visual universe into screenplay form says a lot about how completely he owns his stories. Born in Paris and raised there until nine, he came to manga through the Japanese comics he read on trips home, and his back catalogue speaks for itself — which honestly feels right for someone this deep in the craft. I have genuine respect for creators who let the work do the talking, and Inoue has been doing exactly that for over thirty years.

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Santa Inoue (born February 23, 1968) is a Japanese manga artist and screenwriter. He works across both visual storytelling and script writing, bringing a dual creative perspective to his projects. Born in Paris, where he lived until the age of nine, he is best known for the Tokyo Tribe series and also runs the fashion brand SANTASTIC! WEAR. His official website is santa.co.jp.

Name (English)

Santa Inoue

Name (Japanese)

井上三太

Reading

いのうえ さんた

Born

February 23, 1968 (age 58)

Origin

Paris, France

Occupation

Manga Artist / Screenwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Monkey

• Official sitehttps://www.santa.co.jp/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%95%E4%B8%8A%E4%B8%89%E5%A4%AA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3472646

Tags

• Manga Artist
• Screenwriter

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.