Ishiguro Masakazu

Name In Native Language: 石黒正数

Birthdate: September 8, 1977

Male manga artist from Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture. Married.

Graduated from the Art Department of Osaka University of Art. He won an award in the Afternoon Four Seasons Awards for Hero in 2000.

Influenced by Fujiko F. Fujio, Otomo Katsuhiro, and Ohara Shinji.

In March 2009, Fuji TV's "o ni mo Kimyōna Monogatari" dramatized his short manga "Switch" into a live TV series.

In October 2010, TBS animated his serial manga And Yet the Town Keeps Turning.