Yusuke Murata

Murata Yusuke, born in the 4th of July, 1978 in Miyagi-ken, is a Japanese Manga Artist. He's known for his current manga Eyeshield 21. He works alongRiichiro Inagaki, who works on the story of Eyeshield 21.

He was once the assistant and apprentice of Obata Takeshi of Hikari no Go and Death Note fame. He had a number of one-shots published in Weekly Shonen Jump namely Partner (won the 122th Hop*Step award), Samui Hanashi (won the 2nd Prize in the 51th Akatsuka Awards), Kaitou COLT and of course, Eyeshield 21 which was then serialized starting in Weekly Shonen Jump No. 34 2002. He is also responsible for designing Dust Man from Rockman 4 (Megaman 4) and Crystal Man from Rockman 5 (Megaman 5).