Kōsei Ono (小野 耕世, Ono Kōsei, born November 28, 1939) is a Japanese film critic, cartoon critic, comic translator and overseas comic / animation researcher.
[1] Ono is the leading authority on the publication, research and introduction of overseas comics (gaikoku manga) in Japan.
In 1968, invited by Osamu Tezuka, Ono wrote a column for COM magazine, “Introduction to Overseas Manga" (海外まんが紹介, Kaigai manga shōkai), presenting foreign (especially American) comics titles to Japanese readers.
[2] In 1970 he partnered with Ryoichi Ikegami on writing the manga adaptation of Spider-Man for Shonen Magazine.
He was visiting Marvel's NY offices while it was being produced and they decided to honor him with the character name.