Masayuki Ishikawa (Japanese: 石川 雅之, Hepburn: Ishikawa Masayuki, born 23 October 1974 in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture) is a Japanese manga artist.
He is best known for Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture and Maria the Virgin Witch; both of which were adapted into anime television series.
[1][2][3] He made his debut as a manga artist in 1997 with the short story Nippon Seifu Chokkatsu Kidō Sentai Kōmuin V in the magazine Bessatsu Young Magazine.
[4] His commercial and critical breakthrough came in 2004 with the series Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture, which was serialized in the magazine Evening.
Since 2015 he works on the series Madowanai Hoshi for the magazine Morning, set in a world devastated by climate change, in which humanity is forced to live in a dome.