Kentaro Yabuki (Japanese: 矢吹 健太朗, Hepburn: Yabuki Kentarō, born February 4, 1980[1]) is a Japanese manga artist, best known for his series Black Cat (2000–2004) and for illustrating To Love Ru (2006–2009) and To Love Ru Darkness (2010–2017) alongside author Saki Hasemi.

He even admitted that his first publication in Jump was not his own work but actually an illustration combining, or rather fusing together, its characters Gohan and Trunks that he sent in to a 1995 contest and won a prize for.

[3] Yabuki's first serialized manga, Yamato Gensōki, briefly ran in Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1998.

Yabuki's one-shot "Futagami Double" was published in the January 4, 2010, issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump.

[7][8] In October 2010, Yabuki and Hasemi began To Love Ru Darkness in Jump SQ..[8] In August 2011 the editorial department suddenly announced that Mayoi Neko Overrun!

[10] In 2014, Yabuki began providing the illustrations for a different Matsu light novel series, Hatena Illusion.

[11] However, a series titled Hatena Illusion R began in 2019, and Yabuki continues his role as illustrator of the novels.