Weekly Shōnen Champion
was a Japanese manga artist. Azuma made his professional debut in 1969 in the Akita Shoten manga magazine "Manga Ō". He was most well known for his science fiction "lolicon"-themed works appearing in magazines such as "Weekly Shōnen Champion", as well as children's comedy series such as "Nanako SOS" and "Little Pollon" (which both became anime television series in the early 1980s). He has been called the "father of "lolicon"".