Masasumi Kakizaki

Masasumi Kakizaki (Japanese: 柿崎正澄, Hepburn: Kakizaki Masasumi; born May 18, 1978) is a Japanese manga artist. He debuted in 2001 with the one-shot Two Tops prior to launching his first series, X-Gene, in 2002. Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin, which he illustrated, won the Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category in 2005.

Masasumi Kakizaki 柿崎正澄
Kakizaki at Lucca Comics & Games in 2014
Born	(1978-05-18) May 18, 1978 (age 47)[1] Monbetsu, Hokkaido, Japan[1]
Area(s)	Manga artist
Notable works	Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin Green Blood
Collaborators	Shūhō Satō George Abe
Awards	51st Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category

Works

Title	Year	Magazine	Publisher(s)	Notes	Ref.
Two Tops (ツートップ, Tsūtoppu)	2001	Separate Volume Weekly Young Sunday	Shogakukan	One-shot	[1]
X-Gene [it]	2002	Weekly Young Sunday	Shogakukan	With Kentaro Fumizuki	[1]
Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin (RAINBOW-二舎六房の七人-)	2002–2010	Weekly Young Sunday Big Comic Spirits	Shogakukan	With George Abe	[2]
Hideout	2010	Big Comic Spirits	Shogakukan		[3]
Bestiarius (闘獣士 ベスティアリウス, Tōjūshi Besutiariusu)	2011–2018	Weekly Shōnen Sunday Shōnen Sunday S	Shogakukan		[4]
Green Blood	2011–2013	Weekly Young Magazine	Kodansha		[5]
Wife of a Spy (スパイの妻, Supai no Tsuma)	2020–2021	Monthly Sunday Gene-X	Shogakukan	Based on Wife of a Spy	[6]
The Tree of Death: Yomotsuhegui (ヨモツヘグイ 死者の国の果実, Yomotsuhegui: Shisha no Kuni no Kajitsu)	2021–2023	Monthly Young Magazine	Kodansha		[7]

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Work/Recipient	Result	Ref
2005	51st Shogakukan Manga Award	Best General Manga	Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin	Won	[8]