Yasuhiko's “Last New Series” debuted in 2018

© Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Kodansha

The June issue of Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon magazine revealed on Thursday that manga creator and anime director Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Inui to Tatsumi: Siberian Manga Shuppei Hishi-(Inui and Tatsumi: Secret History of the Siberian Intervention) will ends in the magazine's next issue on May 24.

Yasuhiko launched his “last new series” in Monthly Afternoon magazine in September 2018. Kodansha published the manga's first compiled book volume in April 2019 and the 10th compiled book volume on April 1, 2018. December 21.

The manga focuses on artillery bombardment expert Inui and newspaper reporter Tatsumi during the events of the Siberian Intervention. The Siberian Intervention was a military expedition by the Allied Forces from 1918 to 1922. Troops from various countries including Japan were dispatched to intervene in the Russian Civil War.

Yasuhiko began as a manga author with his manga Arion, first published in 1979, and The Venus Wars first published in 1986. In 2001, Yasuhiko launched the manga Gundam: The Origin, a retelling of the series' 1979 origin story.

Yasuhiko began his career as an animator at Mushi Productions in 1967. He designed the characters in the studio's 1971 Nozomi in the Sun series, which was his first collaboration with the show's storyboard artist and Future Mobile Suit Gun creator Yoshiyuki Tomino. The pair also worked together on the storyboards of Space Battleship Yamato and Brave Raideen, before Tomino launched the Mobile SuitGundam series in 1979 with character designs by Yasuhiko.

Since then, Yasuhiko worked on character designs for other installments in the series. Gundam franchise, including Mobile Suit Zeta Gun and Mobile Suit Gundunda F91. He is the director and character designer of the anime Mobile Suit Gun: The Origin and most recently the film Mobile Suit Gundam: Cucuruz Doan's Island, premiering in June 2022.

Yasuhiko received a Lifetime Achievement in Cinema award from the Japanese government's Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2022 to honor his animation work and character designs.

Source: Monthly June afternoons