Cardfight!! Vanguard, Volume 2
Akira Itou is a writer, gamer, and international best-selling comic  artist. Over the last decade his work has been associated with some of  the world's most popular trading card games - YuGiOh and Vanguard.Raised in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, Itou cut his teeth as an assistant  for Studio Dice and YuGiOh creator Kazuki Takahashi. After working as an  assistant on the original YuGiOh comic, Itoh would evnetually come to  draw the YuGiOh sequel YuGiOh R. The series was a regular feature in  Shonen Jump Magazine for four years and significantly expanded the brand  from comic for teens to full-blown gaming narrative.   After working with the YuGiOh franchise for nearly a decade, Itoh would  pair up with Japanese trading card leaders BushiRoad to develop a new  card game - Vanguard. Vanguard would premiere as a serialized manga in  2010 to lay the foundation for a TRPG which would debut globally  February 2011. The brand has spun-off a weekly prime-time animated TV  series, which is currently available globally in English on YouTube,  with Itou as the writer.