Haruichi Furudate

Haruichi Furudate is a Japanese manga artist best known for Haikyu!!, a volleyball manga that became one of the best-selling series of all time and was adapted into several anime series and films.

His one-shot King Kid received an honorable mention for the Jump Treasure Newcomer Manga Prize in 2008. In 2010 he launched his first full series in Weekly Shōnen Jump, Philosophy School, Yotsuya Sensei's Ghost Stories.

Haikyu!! started as two one-shots in 2011 and ran as a series in Weekly Shōnen Jump from February 20, 2012, to July 20, 2020, collected in 45 volumes. It won the 61st Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category in 2016.