Kami Imai
February 8, 1980 is a Japanese manga artist best known as the creator of Needless which has been adapted into a 24 episode anime television series by Madhouse.
Also recorded as Imai Kami
Kami Imai
- Name
- Kami Imai
- Born
- 8 February 1980
- Occupation
- Manga artist
- Known for
- Needless
- Nationality
- Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
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February 8, 1980 is a Japanese manga artist best known as the creator of Needless which has been adapted into a 24 episode anime television series by Madhouse.
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Kami Imai worked as illustrator and mangaka and was Japan. Born in 1980. The language is Japanese.
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Key facts
• Name — Kami Imai • Native Name — 今井神 • Born — 8 February 1980 • Occupation — Manga artist • Known for — Needless
Works
Works
• Angoromoa-chan no Chikyū Shinryaku (2004, SoftBank Creative) • Needless (2003-2013, serialized in Ultra Jump, Shueisha) • Katatsumuri-chan (2006-2011, serialized in Manga Time Kirara, Houbunsha) • Shirasunamura (2006-2013, serialized in Comic Rex, Ichijinsha) • Infinite Dendrogram (2016-ongoing, serialized in Comic Fire) • Magaimono (2019-ongoing, serialized in Young Magazine the 3rd) • Outside works that appear in the ARCADIA magazine.
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Life and career
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1980
Kami Imai born.
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Madhouse. NEEDLESS.
- 2.ja:あんごろもあちゃんの地球侵略にっき (ねとらんBOOK) (コミック).
- 3.Shueisha. NEEDLESS 1.
- 4.Shueisha. NEEDLESS 10.
- 5.Houbunsha.
- 6.Ichijinsha.
- 7.Ichijinsha.
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