Kurumada masami

In addition, he practiced martial arts in his youth, which he would adapt into a good majority of his masterpieces.ĭuring his senior year of high school, he would enter one of Young Jump’s contests but didn't win. In his youth, he was a big fan of a manga called Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daishou, a delinquent manga popular in the late-1960s. Before we can get into his best masterpieces, who is the man behind the legend? Kurumada-sensei was born during the baby boomer days in Japan in Tokyo. Though Saint Seiya may be his most popular work internationally, his legacy goes beyond it and has contributed to the industry more that many non-Japanese fans can ever imagine. For either old school, Western European, and/or Latin American anime fans, you are likely to associate Masami Kurumada’s name exclusively with Saint Seiya, which has a very strong following in those groups.