Yusuke Murata

Born on July 4, 1978, Yusuke Murata is a Japanese manga artist and animator whose draftsmanship has made him one of the most recognizable illustrators working in Weekly Shōnen Jump and its related publications. He first gained wide attention through Eyeshield 21, a long-running American football manga he drew in partnership with writer Riichiro Inagaki. Serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from July 2002 through June 2009, the series demonstrated Murata's gift for rendering explosive physical action with clarity and kinetic energy — no small achievement in a sport demanding split-second choreography across a crowded field.

That visual fluency carried directly into his next major project: illustrating One-Punch Man, the superhero comedy originally created by the webcomic artist known as One. Murata's meticulously detailed redraw of One's stripped-down story, serialized in the online edition of Weekly Young Jump, transformed the material into a showcase for some of the most technically ambitious fight sequences in contemporary manga. Both Eyeshield 21 and One-Punch Man have been adapted into anime television series.

Across a career spanning more than two decades — our catalog credits him as artist, colorist, and inker on 169 issues between 2005 and 2026 — Murata has built a reputation for tireless craft and visible enthusiasm for his medium, qualities that have sustained his collaboration with One-Punch Man well into the 2020s.