Yoshinori Kobayashi

• Name Nonen — 小林 よしのり • Birth Name — Yoshinori Kobayashi • Born — 31 August 1953 • Birthplace — Fukuoka, Japan • Area — Manga artist • Notable Works — Gōmanism Sengen • Nonus — ja

A student of French literature from Fukuoka University, Kobayashi published his first manga, Tōdai Itchokusen, in 1976 in Weekly Shōnen Jump while still in school. Another of his early series, Obocchama-kun, a satire about a naughty rich boy in the heyday of Japan's bubble economy, won the 1989 Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga. Kobayashi was included on Aum Shinrikyo's assassination list after he began satirising the cult. An assassination attempt was made on him by the members of the cult in 1993. Kobayashi is a denier of both the Nanjing Massacre and of the comfort women system during World War II.

• 'Beeline to Tokyo U' (1976) • 'Little Princelling' (1986) • Gōmanism Sengen volumes 1–9 • Gōmanism Sengen Extra 1 • 'Gōmanism Supplement/Side Story' • Gōmanism Sengen Sabetsu Ron Special (1995) • Shin Gōmanism Sengen volumes 1–14 • Shin Gōmanism Sengen Special – Datsu Seigi Ron (1996) • Neo Gōmanism Manifesto Special – On War (1998), volumes 1–3 (Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3) • Sabetsu Ron Special – Gōmanism Sengen (1998) • Shin Gōmanism Sengen Special – "Ko to Ōyake" Ron (2000) • Neo Gomanism Manifesto Special – On Taiwan (2000) • Gōmanism Sengen Special – Yoshirin Senki (2003) • Shin Gōmanism Sengen Special – Okinawa Ron (2005) • Shin Gōmanism Sengen Special – Yasukuni Ron (2005) • Shin Gōmanism Sengen Special – Chōsen-teki Heiwa Ron, volumes 1–2 • Iwayuru A-kyū Sempan – Gōsen Special • Honjitsu no Zatsudan • Live A Live (Character designer, "Prehistory" chapter)