Norifusa Mita Explained

Name Nonen:	三田 紀房
Nonus:	ja
Birth Date:	4 January 1958
Birth Place:	Kitakami, Iwate, Japan
Area:	Manga artist
Notable Works:	Dragon Zakura, Kurokan
Awards:	25th Kodansha Manga Award (2005)
Manga:	Yes

is a Japanese manga artist.^[1] He is best known for Dragon Zakura for which he received the 29th Kodansha Manga Award.^[2] Dragon Zakura has been adapted to live-action television series in Japan and South Korea, its spin-off series Angel Bank received live-action television adaptation as well. His manga Investor Z was adapted into live-action television series in 2018^[3] and The Great War of Archimedes was adapted into a film in 2019.^[4]

Works

• Eiji's Tailor (Big Comic Original Zōkan, Shogakukan)
• (Manga Goraku Next, Nihon Bungeisha)
• (Monthly Afternoon, Kodansha)
• Boys of Summer (Big Comic Spirits, Shogakukan)
• (Weekly Playboy, Shueisha)
• (Weekly Manga Goraku, Nihon Bungeisha)
• (Evening, Kodansha)
• (Weekly Young Magazine, Kodansha)
• (Weekly Morning, Kodansha)
  • (Weekly Morning, Kodansha)
• (Big Comic Superior, Shogakukan)
• (Super Jump, Shueisha)
• (Weekly Per Golf, Gakken)
• (Evening, Kodansha)
• (Weekly Young Magazine, Kodansha)
• (Weekly Morning, Kodansha)
• (Weekly Young Magazine, Kodansha)
• (Grand Jump, Shueisha)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Excellence Prize: Dragon Zakura . https://web.archive.org/web/20071218200917/http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/festival/2005/manga/000484/index.php . December 18, 2007 . . August 2, 2014.
2. Web site: http://www.kodansha.co.jp/award/archive/manga.html. ja:講談社漫画賞 (過去の受賞者一覧). Kodansha. ja. September 20, 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20121202153805/http://www.kodansha.co.jp/award/archive/manga.html. December 2, 2012. dead.
3. Web site: Investor Z Manga Gets Live-Action TV Series Starring Hiroya Shimizu . . 6 August 2018.
4. Web site: Archimedes no Taisen Manga by Investor Z's Mita Gets Live-Action Film . . 6 August 2018.