is a 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...

 and graphic novelist. He was born in Aichi, Japan.

He is best known for the Pokémon manga based on the animation series: "The Electric Tale of Pikachu" published by Viz Media

VIZ Media

VIZ Media, LLC, headquartered in San Francisco, is an anime, manga, and Japanese entertainment company. It was founded in 1986 as VIZ LLC. In 2005, VIZ LLC and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current VIZ Media LLC, which is jointly owned by Japanese publishers Shogakukan and Shueisha, and...

 (known as Dengeki Pikachu and published by Shogakukan

Shogakukan

is a Japanese publisher of dictionaries, literature, manga, non-fiction, DVDs, and other media in Japan.Shogakukan founded Shueisha which founded Hakusensha. These are three separate companies, but are together called the Hitotsubashi Group, one of the largest publishing groups in Japan...

 in Japan). He also illustrated the first two volumes of the Crest of the Stars

Crest of the Stars

is a three-volume space opera science fiction novel written by Hiroyuki Morioka with cover illustrations by Toshihiro Ono. Beginning in 1999, the novels were adapted into anime series, the first of which ran for 13 episodes on WOWOW...

trilogy, and draws hentai under the pen name of Kamirenjaku Sanpei.

External links

• Dogasu's Backpack, An interview with Toshihiro Ono
• The Doujinshi DB Project, "Kamirenjaku Sanpei / 上連雀三平", works list