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Place of Birth: Kikugawa, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
About Yū Koyama
- Yu Koyama (?? ??, Koyama Yu, born 20 February 1948 in Ogasa, Shizuoka) is a Japanese manga artist.
- After graduating from the University of Shizuoka he moved to Tokyo and in 1968 took a job with Saito Productions, the company run by Takao Saito.
- In 1971 he worked with Kazuo Koike at Studio Ship. Koyama debuted in Shonen Sunday in 1973 with Ore wa Chokkaku.
- He has won multiple awards in the manga field, winning the Shogakukan Manga Award twice, once in 1977 for Ganbare Genki and again in 1998 for Azumi.
- Azumi also won an Excellence Award at the 1997 Japan Media Arts Festival.
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