Mitsutoshi Furuya, Date of Birth

    

Mitsutoshi Furuya

Japanese manga artist

Date of Birth: 11-Aug-1936

Profession: mangaka

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Mitsutoshi Furuya

  • Mitsutoshi Furuya (????, Furuya Mitsutoshi, born 11 August 1936) is a Japanese manga artist.
  • He made his debut as a manga artist in 1955 with kashi-hon manga.
  • He started as an assistant of Osamu Tezuka in 1958, but is primarily known for starting out as an assistant of Fujio Akatsuka five years later.
  • He is best known for his series Dame Oyaji ("No-Good Dad", 1970–1982), which gained notoriety by giving a darkly humorous send-up of Japanese family life with a meek, pathetic father married to a cruel and savage wife.
  • The series received the 1979 Shogakukan Manga Award for shonen, was adapted into a movie in 1973 and as an anime television series in 1974.

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