In 1984, he won the 11th Tetsuya Chiba Award for outstanding newcomer for the short story "Tadatada Honobo no Heart".

[3] In the 2010s, he started to work for Shogakukan's seinen magazines as well and shifted his focus towards adaptations rather than original stories.

After a break, he drew a manga version of the animation film Isle of Dogs upon Wes Anderson's and Kunichi Nomura's request and serialized it in Morning in 2018.

[3] In the 2000s, with Tōkyō Kaidō, his style became gradually more streamlined, with more attention to details and to body parts.

Bataashi Kingyo (1990) was directed by Joji Matsuoka, Samehada Otoko to Momojiri Onna (1999) by Katsuhito Ishii and Dragon Head (2003) by George Iida.

[14][15] The manga also won the Fauve D'Angoulême - Prix de la Série at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2017.