Fujima Kunisada

**Fujima Kunisada** (Japanese: **国貞(くにさだ)藤間(ふじま)** *Kunisada Fujima*, born 1996) is the mangaka, who is also best known for creating the series, *Shuriken Rantō Cryptoverse*. His works goes back to 2016.

## History

### Life

Fujima Kunisada was born on November 11, 1996 in Akita Prefecture, Japan. He was raised by his two parents: Maeda Kunisada, the house mother; and Kure Kunisada, who works at the powerplant in the Akita Prefecture. When he grew up around elementary school, Kunisada was quite fond of drawing pictures of animals and people. His parents were fond of his accomplishments in elementary school that they think that they should enroll him in a special school.

During his time in elementary school, Kunisada have found a lot of interest in manga, so he said that he dreams of becoming a mangaka one day. His favorite kinds of manga to read were: action; adventure; fantasy; and science fiction manga, which he always go to the library and discover manga that he likes to read. He also found his interests in: video games; swords; and sci-fi movies. By the time he reached junior high school, Kunisada have practiced sketching, but he preferred his own drawing over sketching his work. A little more is known about Kunisada's high school experiences in the technical high school. He graduated high school in 2015 but didn't attend college because he was at a technical high school in Japan. Later, he married former voice actress Sumida Ayako in 2016.

### Career

Around that time, his interests in Shogumon have came to him. In one of his interviews, he said that he watched the TV series, and it inspired him to write the manga adaptation of the series for Monthly BangBang Special. His first work debut was a Shogumon gag comic called *"Shogumon 4Koma: Dark and Light!! Let's Go!!"*. It only lasted from February 1, 2016 to April 1, 2016 on *Monthly BangBang Special* Magazine because of low ratings. Kunisada's character designs are quite different over the years. The characters have oval eyes that are tilted towards each other, as well as the nose that almost look like the letter "L".

A year and a quarter later, he created the first original series that wasn't based on any anime or video games, so he created the new monthly kodomo manga series, *"Let's Go! The BrawlBall Kids!"*. Released in the same magazine as the Shogumon manga, the series was about the BrawlBall Kids fighting with energy balls in battles. However, it lasted from August 2017 until September 2019 due to low ratings and low readership of the manga. Kunisada went back to adapting video games into manga series. So he choose to adapt Super Ninja into a manga series for the same magazine. Due to his interest in playing the video game, he created the Super Ninja adaptation, *"Super Ninja SUPER WORLD"*. The series ran from September 2017 through November 2018. Kunisada have ended the series because he admitted that he didn't like it, nor the storyline of the series. Right after the production of the Super Ninja adaptation, Kunisada have found interests in ninjas due to the previous series featuring ninjas.

So he created *"Shuriken Warrior Koichi"* (Cryptoverse prototype) in November 2019, even though it was unpublished. In the late 2018, he decided to cancel the series again, and to hold off from making any new series in order to take a break. However, he also found interest in new science fiction manga including fusion, power moves, and fights, and he went back to the manga concept. In late 2019, Kunisada have also confirmed in his twitter account that he is making a new manga series. Around 2020, he came up with the title for the new series called *"Shuriken Brawl Cryptoverse"*, which themes included fusion. The logo for the series was created, and was revised in late 2020, featuring new character named Koji Kiyoshi. In 2021, Kunisada have officially released *Shuriken Brawl Cryptoverse*. Kunisada also decided to do the series weekly, as it is the only series to be published by *Weekly BangBang Comics*. *Shuriken Brawl Cryptoverse* is Fujima Kunisada's longest running series to date by chapter count. However, after the series was created, there was a accidental fire, which have set Kunisada's works on fire, never to appear on the internet nor print.

## Related links

* https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/66469589