Yoshinori Kobayashi (Japanese: 小林 よしのり or 小林 善範, Hepburn: Kobayashi Yoshinori, born August 31, 1953) is a Japanese manga artist known for his far-right political commentary manga Gōmanism Sengen.
[1] A student of French literature from Fukuoka University, Kobayashi published his first manga, Tōdai Itchokusen, in 1976 in Weekly Shōnen Jump while still in school.
Another of his early series, Obocchama-kun, a satire about a naughty rich boy in the heyday of Japan's bubble economy, won the 1989 Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga.
[2] Kobayashi was included on Aum Shinrikyo's assassination list after he began satirising the cult.
[3] Kobayashi is a denier of both the Nanjing Massacre and of the comfort women system during World War II.