Yusuke Murata (Japanese: 村田 雄介, Hepburn: Murata Yūsuke, born July 4, 1978) is a Japanese manga artist and animator, best known for illustrating the American football manga Eyeshield 21 in collaboration with writer Riichiro Inagaki, serialized between July 2002 and June 2009 in Weekly Shōnen Jump; and One's One-Punch Man, serialized in the Weekly Young Jump online version.
[1][2] Murata debuted as a professional manga artist in 1995 by publishing a one-shot titled Partner in a special edition of Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump.
[18][20] Murata wrote and drew a one-shot titled Madofuki Park for the April 2008 issue (published on March 4) of Jump Square, about a futuristic window washer.
[22] Murata created yet another one-shot featured in the Weekly Shōnen Jump on June 21, 2010; titled Minds, it was a story about a self-sacrificing soldier during a war, set in the future.
[24] Murata served as the artist for Donten Prism Solar Car, which was written by Yasuo Ōtagaki (author of Moonlight Mile) and was published in Jump Square between September 4, 2010 and June 4, 2011.
[34][35] For Square Enix's magazine Young Gangan's 10th anniversary issue published on March 20, 2015, Murata did the illustration for One's Gokiburi Buster, a story about a soldier who is specialized on killing cockroaches.
[41][42] Murata is a fan of Kinu Nishimura, the character designer of many Capcom video games[4] and Akira Toriyama's Dragon Ball, with Goku's battles against Piccolo and Frieza being his favorite moments from the latter.
[8] Murata has been highly praised for his art and character designs, including comparisons to Toriyama by June Shimonishi of School Library Journal, as "every inch [is] filled with details and no gag left unseen.
"[45] Murata's ability to draw from different perspectives and angles was praised by Aoki, Pine,[44][46] as well as Zac Bertschy and Carlo Santos of Anime News Network.