Koyoharu Gotouge

Koyoharu Gotouge is the pen name of the Japanese manga artist who created Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, serialized from 2016 to 2020. By July 2025 the manga had more than 220 million copies in circulation, including digital.

Gotouge debuted in 2013 in the 70th Jump Treasure Newcomer Manga Awards with the one-shot Kagarigari. Three more one-shots followed in Jump Next! and Weekly Shōnen Jump between 2014 and 2015.

Honors include Kodansha's Noma Publishing Culture Award in 2020, a Special Prize at the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2021 and the comic division grand prize of the Japan Cartoonists Association Awards that same year. Time also named Gotouge one of its 100 most influential people, the first manga artist to make the list.