He was born in Niigata in 1968. While he was a university student, his work Taisho Yaro was awarded the Chiba Tetsuya Prize by Kodansha, and he made his debut in Morning (Kodansha) with this work. With a keen sense of being ahead of his time and an aggressive and hard-to-imitate mode of depiction, he continues to publish robust works. His other important works are Decathlon, Dokyo-Boshi, Giant, and Hyouge Mono.