| Name Nonen: | 石川 雅之 |
| Nonus: | ja |
| Birth Date: | 23 October 1974 |
| Birth Place: | Sakai, Osaka Prefecture |
| Notable Works: | Moyasimon |
| Awards: | 32nd Kodansha Manga Award General category (2008) Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (2008) |
| Manga: | Yes |
| Website: | http://mmmasayuki.la.coocan.jp |
is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for and Maria the Virgin Witch; both of which were adapted into anime television series.[1] [2] [3]
He made his debut as a manga artist in 1997 with the short story Nippon Seifu Chokkatsu Kidō Sentai Kōmuin V in the magazine Bessatsu Young Magazine. In 1999 he won the Tetsuya Chiba Award for the short story Kami no Sumu Yama, which was later collected in the collection Hitokiri Ryōma.[4]
His commercial and critical breakthrough came in 2004 with the series , which was serialized in the magazine Evening.[5] The series won him the Kodansha Manga Award and the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, both in 2008, as well as the Seiun Award in 2015.
Since 2015 he works on the series Madowanai Hoshi for the magazine Morning, set in a world devastated by climate change, in which humanity is forced to live in a dome.