Masayuki Ishikawa

• Name Nonen — 石川 雅之 • Nonus — ja • Born — 23 October 1974 • Birthplace — Sakai, Osaka Prefecture • Notable Works — * Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture • Maria the Virgin Witch • Awards — 32nd Kodansha Manga Award General category (2008) Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (2008) • Manga — Yes • Website — http: mmmasayuki.la.coocan.jp

He made his debut as a manga artist in 1997 with the short story Nippon Seifu Chokkatsu Kidō Sentai Kōmuin V in the magazine Bessatsu Young Magazine. In 1999 he won the Tetsuya Chiba Award for the short story Kami no Sumu Yama, which was later collected in the collection Hitokiri Ryōma. His commercial and critical breakthrough came in 2004 with the series Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture, which was serialized in the magazine Evening. The series won him the Kodansha Manga Award and the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, both in 2008, as well as the Seiun Award in 2015. He later worked on the series Madowanai Hoshi for the magazines Morning Two from 2015 to 2016, and Morning from 2016 on, set in a world devastated by climate change in which humanity is forced to live in a dome. It completed serialization in 2024.

• Nippon Seifu Chokkatsu Kidō Sentai Kōmuin V (1997) • Kataribe (1998–1999) • Kami no Sumu Yama (1999) • Shūkan Ishikawa Masayuki (2002–2003) • Kanojo no Kokuhaku • Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture (2004–2014) • Hitokiri Ryōma (2005) • Maria the Virgin Witch (2008–2013) • Junketsu no Maria Exhibition (2014) • Teşekkür ederim (2014) • Madowanai Hoshi (2015–2024) • Moyashimon+ (since 2024)

Masayuki Ishikawa is recorded as having received Seiun Award for Best Comic.