Motoka Murakami

Motoka Murakami (村上 もとか) is a Japanese manga artist who writes primarily shōnen manga. He won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for Gakuto Retsuden in 1982 and the Shogakukan Manga Award twice, for shōnen for Musashi no Ken in 1984 and for general manga for Ron in 1996. In 1998, he received an Excellence Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival for Ron.