is a male Japanese manga artist

Mangaka

is the Japanese word for a comic artist or cartoonist. Outside of Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese...

 who resides in Japan. Komi's stories have regularly debuted in Shōnen Jump

Shonen Jump

Shōnen Jump or Shonen Jump may refer to:*Weekly Shōnen Jump, a Japanese manga anthology magazine published by Shueisha since 1968*Monthly Shōnen Jump, a former sister publication of Weekly Shōnen Jump, published from 1970 to 2007...

magazine and its affiliates, Jump being one of the most popular manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 magazines in Japan. Due to Jump's restrictive selection process many of Komi's submissions to the magazine haven't advanced beyond one shots, though Komi remains faithful to Jump. One of Komi's works, Double Arts, was serialised and then cancelled after its third tankōbon

Tankobon

, with a literal meaning close to "independently appearing book", is the Japanese term for a book that is complete in itself and is not part of a series , though the manga industry uses it for volumes which may be in a series...

, but it has developed a sizable cult since its cancellation. Komi is best known for his fantastical artwork and storylines.

List of works

Manga	Role	Magazine	Original Run
Island	Story & Art	Akamaru Jump	2007
Koi no Kami-sama	Story & Art	Weekly Shōnen Jump Weekly Shonen Jump is a weekly shōnen manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. The first issue was released with a cover date of July 2, 1968, and it is still circulating. One of the longest-running manga magazines in Japan, it has a circulation of 2.8 million copies...	2007
Williams	Story & Art	Weekly Shōnen Jump Weekly Shonen Jump is a weekly shōnen manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. The first issue was released with a cover date of July 2, 1968, and it is still circulating. One of the longest-running manga magazines in Japan, it has a circulation of 2.8 million copies...	2007
Apple	Story & Art	Weekly Young Magazine	2008
Double Arts	Story & Art	Weekly Shōnen Jump Weekly Shonen Jump is a weekly shōnen manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. The first issue was released with a cover date of July 2, 1968, and it is still circulating. One of the longest-running manga magazines in Japan, it has a circulation of 2.8 million copies...	2008
Personant	Story & Art	Jump Square Jump Square is a Japanese monthly shōnen manga magazine with a circulation of over 300,000. Published by Shueisha, the magazine premiered on November 2, 2007 as a replacement for Monthly Shōnen Jump, another manga anthology that Shueisha discontinued in June of that year. The magazine is a part of the Jump...	2008
Nisekoi	Story & Art	Weekly Shōnen Jump Weekly Shonen Jump is a weekly shōnen manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. The first issue was released with a cover date of July 2, 1968, and it is still circulating. One of the longest-running manga magazines in Japan, it has a circulation of 2.8 million copies...	2011