Yoshinori Natsume

Yoshinori Natsume is the kind of manga artist who seems to operate in his own quiet dimension — Hiroshima-raised, Chiba University-educated, doubling as a graphic designer, and producing work like Togari and Kurozakuro that feels genuinely dense and a little unsettling in the best way. I love that the graphic design background actually shows in how he constructs a page; there's a deliberateness to the visual language that goes beyond typical shonen instinct. He spent two years as a graphic designer on Metal Gear Solid and Beatmania at Konami before Togari, which honestly just makes the work feel more intentional — like the manga is the whole statement and he's not interested in the noise around it. Not a household name outside of manga circles, but if you've read his stuff you don't forget it.

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Yoshinori Natsume is a Japanese manga artist and graphic designer born on August 23, 1975, in Yano, Aki-ku, Hiroshima. He studied at Chiba University and is known for manga series including Togari and Kurozakuro. He debuted in 1994, worked as a graphic designer on Metal Gear Solid and Beatmania at Konami Computer Entertainment Japan from 1998 to 2000, and later wrote the Batman manga Batman: Death Mask (2008).

Name (English)

Yoshinori Natsume

Name (Japanese)

夏目義徳

Reading

なつめ よしのり

Born

August 23, 1975 (age 51)

Origin

Aki-ku, Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Manga Artist / Graphic Designer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rabbit

University

Chiba University

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttp://www.purple.dti.ne.jp/ses/
• Xhttps://x.com/summereye
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%8F%E7%9B%AE%E7%BE%A9%E5%BE%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q326982

Tags

• From Hiroshima Prefecture
• Manga Artist
• Graphic Designer
• Manga

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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