Kodansha announced on the 27th that manga artist Tetsuya Chiba passed away at 6 p.m. on the 22nd at a hospital in Tokyo. He was 87 years old. Chiba made his professional debut in 1956 with a single volume manga intended for rental libraries. In 1958, he began serializing a manga in a magazine with "Mama's Violin," and in 1961, he made his debut in a weekly boys' magazine with "The Magic Pitch of the Oath" (original story by Kazuya Fukumoto). His…
It was reported on the 27th that manga artist Tetsuya Chiba (real name Tetsuya Chiba), known for "Tomorrow's Joe," had passed away. He was 87 years old...