Syun Matsuena is the author of History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi. He commonly depicts himself as a short chubby figure with curly hair in his work.
History[]
- Born in Tokyo.
- He won Shogakukan's Manga Retsu Award with his story Kishi to Tabibito (The Knight and the Traveller)
- Debuted with The Gate to Valhalla
- 2000: Fight! Ryōzanpaku - History's Strongest Disciple
- 2002: History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi
- 2014: HSDK abruptly ends after it was Canceled.[1]
- 2014/11: He starts working on Tokiwa Kitareri!!
- 2017/06: Tokiwa Kitareri!! ends. (120 chapters + 3 Prologues in 13 volumes)
- 2017/2018: He assisted his disciple Shu Matsuda with his manga Tensō Kidō Arvadling.
- 2018/02: He starts working on Kimi wa 008
Works[]
- Kishi to Tabibito (騎士と旅人), date unknown
- The Gate to Valhalla (バルハラの門), 1996
- The Shining Swordsmen - Kazamarimu (閃光の剣士 カザマリム), 1997
- Fight! Ryōzanpaku - History's Strongest Disciple (戦え!梁山泊 史上最強の弟子), 2000-2002
- Superman Horosho!! (超人ハラショー!!), 2003
- Technique Traveller (技の旅人, Waza no Tabibito), 2011
- History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi (史上最強の弟子ケンイチ), 2002-2014
- Tokiwa Kitareri!! (トキワ来たれり!!), 2014 - 2017
- Kimi wa 008 (君は008), 2018, ongoing
- Kichijōji Shōnen! (吉祥寺少年！), 2019[2]
Trivia[]
- The year of his birth remains is unknown, but he has stated that he was 19 years old when The Gate to Valhalla was published.[3] Which means he is most likely around Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{". years old now.
- He is good friends with Tarō Nogizaka (Team Medical Dragon).
- The composer Tenmon was his senior in high school.
- He produces and directs 3D animations of his works.
- Shu Matsuda is known as his best disciple (一番弟子). Matsueda even produced an animated CM to promote his disciple's debut work.[4] Their art styles are almost the same.[5]
- He voiced the robot in Waza no Tabibito.
- His publisher Romanizes his given name as Syun, while Matsueda himself tends to use Shun most of the time.
References[]
- ↑ Interview with Shun Matsuena
- ↑ Gessan (ゲッサン), issue 08/2019, July 12, 2019.
- ↑ HSDK Volume 26, Omake.
- ↑ 天蒼軌道アルヴァドリング アニメショートムービー！！
- ↑ 天蒼軌道アルヴァドリング