Nobuyuki Fukumoto

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Nobuyuki Fukumoto
福本 伸行
Fukumoto at Desucon 2010 in Finland
Born	(1958-12-10) December 10, 1958 (age 65) Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Other names	Fukumoto Tobi (ふくもと飛火) FKMT
Occupation	Manga artist
Years active	1980–present
Known for	Akagi Gin to Kin Kaiji Ten The Legend of the Strongest, Kurosawa!
Awards	22nd Kodansha Manga Award (1998, Kaiji)

Nobuyuki Fukumoto (福本 伸行, Fukumoto Nobuyuki, born December 10, 1958) is a Japanese manga artist, well known for his work including unique and original gambling ideas, deep psychological analyses of characters, and his distinct art style. Gambling and yakuza are recurring themes in his manga. In English-speaking countries, he is best known as the author of Kaiji, a gambling-related manga, and Akagi, a mahjong-related manga. In 1998, he won the Kodansha Manga Award for Gambling Apocalypse: Kaiji.^[1] An onomatopoeia, "zawa" (ざわ…), meaning an uneasy atmosphere, frequently appears in his comics and is considered his trademark.^[2]