Weekly Shōnen Champion
Beginning in 1972, Azuma began rising in popularity due to the off-color humor in his "Weekly Shōnen Champion" series "Futari to 5-nin". He also married his assistant the same year, with whom he had a girl in 1980 and a boy in 1983. His wife was credited as "Assistant A" in his works, and his daughter and son were respectively credited as "Assistant B" and "Assistant C".