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Yusuke Murata - Net Worth, Age, Height, Birthday, Bio, Wiki!

Explore Yusuke Murata net worth, age, height, bio, birthday, wiki, and salary! Japanese manga artist, known for his illustrations of Eyeshield 21. He has also been a part of the One-Punch Man and Majin Bone series, as well as Donten Prism Solar Car. In this article, we will discover how old is Yusuke Murata? Who is Yusuke Murata dating now & how much money does Yusuke Murata have?

NameYusuke Murata
First NameYusuke
Last NameMurata
OccupationComic Book Artist
BirthdayJuly 4
Birth Year1978
Place of BirthKumamoto Prefecture
Home Town
Birth CountryJapan
Birth SignCancer
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FatherNot Available
MotherNot Available
SiblingsKensuke Murata
SpouseNot Known
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Yusuke Murata Biography

Yusuke Murata is one of the most popular and richest Comic Book Artist who was born on July 4, 1978 in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. He said that he likes Akira Toriyama’s work.

Yusuke Murata (Japanese: 村田 雄介 , Hepburn: Murata Yūsuke, born July 4, 1978) is a Japanese manga artist, best known for illustrating the American football manga Eyeshield 21, in collaboration with writer Riichiro Inagaki. Eyeshield 21 was serialized between July 2002 and June 2009 in Weekly Shōnen Jump, and was later adapted into an anime television series. Murata’s other major work is his illustration of One’s One-Punch Man, serialized in the Weekly Young Jump online version.

When planning was underway to create Eyeshield 21, the editorial department asked Riichiro Inagaki if he wanted to both write and draw the series, but Inagaki felt he was “so rookie”. So Inagaki asked Murata to be the illustrator. In 2002, they published two one-shots called Eyeshield Part 1 (前編 , Zenpen) and Part 2 (後編 , Kōhen) on March 5 and 12 in Weekly Shōnen Jump. The series began regular publication on July 23 of the same year in the same magazine. The series spanned 333 chapters, with the final chapter being published in June 15, 2009; the series was collected in 37 volumes. An anime adaptation, directed by Masayoshi Nishida and co-produced by TV Tokyo, NAS, and Gallop, aired from April 2005 to March 2008.

He was born in Miyagi (Japan).

He is credited with the creation of Mega Man bosses Dust Man & Crystal Man. These were based on designs that he submitted to a Mega Man design contest when he was 12.

Murata was born in 1978 in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. At the age of twelve, he entered a contest to design Mega Man villains and won twice, having final designs adapted from his sketches. The game credits list his name as responsible for Dust Man from Mega Man 4 and Crystal Man from Mega Man 5. Murata debuted as a professional manga artist in 1995 by publishing a one-shot titled Partner in a special edition of Shueisha’s Weekly Shōnen Jump. For this work, he received the Hop Step Award. Murata published Samui Hanashi in Weekly Shōnen Jump in June 1998, which won him the Akatsuka Award. In February 2002, he published Kaitō Colt in the same exact magazine.

Yusuke Murata Net Worth

Yusuke is one of the richest Comic Book Artist from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yusuke Murata's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

His first job was in 1995, when he founded Partner. Weekly Shonen Jump featured him.

Net Worth$5 Million
SalaryUnder Review
Source of IncomeComic Book Artist
CarsNot Available
HouseLiving in own house.

In 2012, Murata published two one-shots along with a Japanese web comic author dubbed “One”; the first one, Dotō no Yūshatachi, was released on April 1 in Weekly Young Jump, and the second, Dangan Tenshi Fan Club was released on April 17 in Miracle Jump. Murata started to collaborate with One on the remake of the webcomic One-Punch Man, which started to be serialized in the online version of the Weekly Young Jump on June 14, 2012. Eighteen volumes have been released by Shueisha as of December 4, 2018. An anime adaptation, directed by Shingo Natsume and produced by Madhouse, aired from October 2015 to December 2015.

Murata is a fan of Kinu Nishimura, the character designer of many Capcom video games and Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball, with Goku’s battles against Piccolo and Frieza being his favorite moments from the latter. Murata has been highly praised for his art and character designs, including comparisons to Toriyama by June Shimonishi of School Library Journal, as “every inch [is] filled with details and no gag left unseen.” Deb Aoki of About.com praised how Murata’s art give Eyeshield 21′ s dynamism, while “he adds lot of clever, hilarious details.” Aoki also said Murata knows “his art not just there to look pretty – it’s there to tell a story.” Mania.com’s Jarred Pine commended the character’s features details and how “strong realistic designs are balanced with some exaggerated ones that add a nice comedic effect.” Murata’s ability to draw from different perspectives and angles was praised by Aoki, Pine, as well as Zac Bertschy and Carlo Santos of Anime News Network. Saying that “it’s difficult to capture the kind of frantic motion every panel exudes in animation,” Bertschy asserted the manga may be better than the anime because of Murata’s art uniqueness. Santos said his capacity of creating imaginative features is not limited to action, praising the singularity of each of the main characters of Eyeshield 21.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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From 2008 to 2010, Weekly Shōnen Jump published once a month a chapter of Hetappi Manga Kenkyūjo R (lit. “Hetappi Manga Research Lab R”), Murata’s remake of Akira Toriyama’s Hetappi Manga Kenkyūjo. It is a story about Saitou, a Jump editor based on Murata and Inagaki’s own editor on Eyeshield 21, who decides to become a manga artist and threatens Murata to teach him how to draw manga. A collected volume of the series was released by Shueisha on June 3, 2011. In 2012, Murata posted on Twitter a short story in the same universe in which Saitou pesters the Murata for his manuscript and it was well received for its inventive use of folded paper, cutouts and white-out to create a three-dimensional appearance for his comic.

Who is Yusuke Murata Dating?

According to our records, Yusuke Murata is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of January 13, 2024, Yusuke Murata’s is not dating anyone.

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In November 2013, Murata was hired to be the character designer for the Majin Bone anime adaptation that began in April 2014. For Square Enix’s magazine Young Gangan’ s 10th anniversary issue published on March 20, 2015, Murata did the illustration for One’s Gokiburi Buster, a story about a soldier who is specialized on killing cockroaches. On June 30, 2016, Murata started to publish Mangaka Yashoku Benkyuusho (lit. “Manga Artist’s Late-Night Snack Laboratory”) on Kodansha magazine Morning digital edition. Each chapter features a fictionalized version of Murata preparing dishes, and its 33 chapters have been released into a single volume on December 12, 2016.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Murata wrote and drew a one-shot titled Madofuki Park for the April 2008 issue (published on March 4) of Jump Square, about a futuristic window washer. He also created the one-shot Blust!, centered on a boy who was experimented on and obtained extraordinary powers from eating curry, which was published in April 2009. Murata created yet another one-shot featured in the Weekly Shōnen Jump on June 21, 2010; titled Minds, it was a story about a self-sacrificing soldier during a war, set in the future. Murata also illustrated the Weekly Shōnen Jump 40th anniversary posters, which display the popular manga characters featured in the magazine. Murata served as the artist for Donten Prism Solar Car, which was written by Yasuo Ōtagaki (author of Moonlight Mile) and was published in Jump Square between September 4, 2010 and June 4, 2011. The story of a young man who works at an ironworks and receives the request to build a solar car, it was later published by Shueisha in two volumes.

On May 10, 2019 Murata’s father passed away – this information was announced by Yusuke Murata and his brother Kensuke Murata.

Facts & Trivia

Yusuke Ranked on the list of most popular Comic Book Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Yusuke Murata celebrates birthday on July 4 of every year.

Is Yusuke Murata and ONE the same person?

One (stylised as ONE) or Tomohiro is the pseudonym of a Japanese manga artist, best known for his web manga series One-Punch Man, which was later remade as a digital manga illustrated by Yusuke Murata.

What animes did Yusuke Murata make?

  • Known For. Jump Ultimate Stars Writer (2006)
  • Buddy Mission Bond Animation Department (2021)
  • Mega Man 5 Animation Department (1992)
  • One Punch Man Animation Department (2015)
  • Writer. One Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows (2020)
  • Writer. Jump Ultimate Stars (2006)
  • Animation Department. …
  • One Punch Man (2015)

What is ONE's real name?

Avatar. Tomohiro or ONE (born October 29, 1986) is the alias of a Japanese manga artist, best known for his manga series One-Punch Man (2009–present), which is remade by Yusuke Murata.

Does Yusuke Murata draw digitally?

Manga ArtistMangaDrawing digitally?
Yusuke MurataOne-Punch ManBoth Digital and Traditional

Did Murata make water breathing?

Water Breathing ( 水 みず の 呼 こ 吸 きゅう , Mizu no kokyū?): Murata is a user of the Water Breathing, however, for Murata, the water is too faint to be able to be seen.

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