History Creator / MasamiKurumada

** Seiya: "TheArcher from the Stars"

** Maya: [[TheArcher Shoots "demons" with "arrows."]]

* SignatureStyle: [[{{Pegasus}} Pegasi]], [[TheArcher Arrows]], and all types of CoolHorse motifs. It's even the icon for [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bvRSQbCodQY/U4Zsb4sADxI/AAAAAAAAD9Y/iJOnmYsmkIQ/s1600/Kurumada+40th.png Kurumada's 40th Anniversary logo]].

* {{Hotblooded}}: He's the champion of this genre. Hell, he even written the lyrics titled ''Shounenki I~'' '''BURNING BLOOD''' for one of ''Saint Seiya's'' opening theme songs.

** Despite the high death count, ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' too, has all the female Saints including Marin, Shaina and June survive while all but the five main bronze boys (And the secondary bronze saints as well) die.
* OnlySixFaces: Many of the characters he draws tend to have the same face and body-type, with only a couple of minor differences such as the haircut or having scars on their faces. As is pointed out below, the main character of most of his series tend to look identical.

* RecycledPremise: Besides of ReusedCharacterDesign, most of Masami Kurumada work tend to follow a very similar premise of superpowered young men fighting against evil, as it can be seen in ''Manga/SaintSeiya'', ''Fuma no Kojiro'' and ''Anime/BtX'', to the point he has been often accused of SelfPlagiarism. One of his works, ''Silent Knight Sho'' basically recycled the premise of ''Manga/SaintSeiya'', featuring young men using armors to fight against evil.
* ReusedCharacterDesign: If it is a Masami Kurumada work, you can bet that it will have several characters who are identical to characters from the same work, characters from prior works, and characters from future works. Just to use '''one''' example, the main characters of all his most famous series, Kojiro from ''Fuma No Kojiro'', Seiya from ''Saint Seiya'', Sho from ''Silent Knight Sho'', Teppei from ''B't X'', and Ryuji from ''Ring Ni Kakero'', all look basically identical. They all have the same hair-style, body type and attitude, to the point it makes you wonder if Kurumada seriously can't draw any other kind of protagonist.

* ''Manga/SaintSeiya'': By far his most famous work.

* ''Manga/SaintSeiyaNextDimension''

* RecycledPremise: Besides of ReusedCharacterDesign, most of Masami Kurumada work tend to follow a very similar premise of superpowered young men fighting against evil, as it can be seen in ''Manga/SaintSeiya'',''Fuma no Kojiro'' and ''Anime/BtX'', to the point he has been often accused of SelfPlagiarism. One of his works, ''Silent Knight Sho'' basically recycled the premise of ''Manga/SaintSeiya'', featuring young men using armors to fight against evil.

* OnlySixFaces: Many of the characters he draws tend to have the same face and body-type, with only a couple of minor differences such as the haircut or having scars on their faces. As is pointed out below, the main character of most of his series tend to look identical.

* FanNickname: Kurumada is recognized for his innovative art styles used in fights; in which lots of them became textbook examples to the industry, and even memes to aspiring manga artists for practice.
** The Kurumada Balloon: One of Kurumada's style of SpeechBubbles in the form of pushing out several thick aggressive black paint strokes from a black speech bubble. Usually used for his character's [[CallingYourAttacks attacks]], and or when characters are having a BigWhat moment.
** The Kurumada Fall: Kurumada's style of FacePlant. Characters frequently [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom eat an attack]], [[RagdollPhysics ragdoll]], and land face first [[PlayedForDrama without it]] being [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat a joke]]. [[HardHead Luckily]], their good looks rarely [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished pay the price]], even when they [[WhatADrag grind chunks]] out of a stone floor or give it a [[HighPressureBlood new paint job]].
** The Kurumada Flight: Kurumada's style of MegatonPunch. Attackers in this type of panel usually sticks to the bottom-right corner and brutally punches off their opponents with a gruesome upper cut sending them flying faced away from the camera. Usually paired with The Kurumada Balloon.

Masami Kurumada (Born December 6, 1953.) is a {{Shounen}} manga artist and writer from Tokyo, Japan.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Kurumada somehow likes to render the appearances of his teenage characters to look as if they're 20-30 years old. The person who suffered the most extreme age dissonance is Kazuki Shinatora of ''Ring ni Kagero''-- A 15 year-old middle schooler who looks as if he's over 30.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Kurumada somehow likes to render the appearances of his teenage characters to look as if they're 20-30 years old. The person who suffered the most extreme age dissonance is Kazuki Shinatora of ''Ring ni Kagero''. A middle schooler who looks as if he's over 30.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Kurumada somehow likes to render the appearances of his teenage characters to look as if they're 20-30 years old. The person who suffered the most extreme age dissonance is Kazuki Shinatora of ''Ring ni Kagero''. A middle schooler who looks as if he's over 30.

* OnlySixFaces: Many of the characters he draws tend to have the same face and body-type, with only a couple of minor differences such as the haircut or having scars on his face. As is pointed out below, the main character of most of his series tend to look identical.

* ''Manga/RingNiKakero'': A boxing manga and Kurumada's favourite work, as well as the one that made him big. Heavily inspired by ''Manga/AshitaNoJoe''.

* OnlySixFaces: Many of the characters he draws tend to have the same type of face and body-type, with only a couple of minor differences such as the haircut or having scars on his face. As is pointed out below, the main character of most of his series tend to look identical.

* OnlySixFaces: Many of the characters he draws tend to have the same type of face and body-type, with only a couple of minor differences such as the haircut or having scars on his face. As is pointed out below, the main character of most of his series always tend to look identical.

* OnylySixFaces: Many of the characters he draws tend to have the same type of face and body-type, with only a couple of minor differences such as the haircut or having scars on his face. As is pointed out below, the main character of most of his series always tend to look identical.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: The large majority of his work stands firmly on the idealistic side, with the forces of good triumphing over evil, despite all the constant violence, tragedy and CrapsackWorld elements of each one of his stories.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Kurumada somehow likes to render the appearances of his teenage characters to look as if they're 20-30 years old. The person who suffered the most extreme age dissonance is Kazuki Shinatora of ''Ring ni Kagero''. A middle schooler who looks as if he's over 30...

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: The large majority of his work stands firmly on the idealistic side, with the forces of Good triumphing over evil, despite all the constant violence, tragedy and CrapsackWorld elements of each one of his stories.

* ''Otoko Zaka'': His personal favorite work, which is a pure throwback delinquent manga inspired by ''Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho''. CutShort by Shonen Jump in 1983, only to be {{Uncancelled}} in 2014, continuing where he left of.

* ''Otoko Zaka'': His personal favorite work, which is a pure throwback delinquent manga inspired by "Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daishou". CutShort by Shonen Jump in 1983, only to be Uncancelled in 2014, continuing where he left of.

* ''Otoko Zaka'': His personal favorite work, which is a pure throwback delinquent manga inspired by "Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daishou". CutShort by Shonen Jump in 1983, only to be revived in 2014 to continue where he left of.

Known for his {{Shoujo}}[[RealMenWearPink -esque]] approach to character design, knowledge in physics, impressive usage of quotings from various classical literatures, {{philosophers}}, Literature/TheBible, and the [[EverythingsBetterWithSparkles grandiose]] usage of rich screentones while maintaining a RatedMForManly story execution made him the prominent grandfather of the BishonenJumpSyndrome, and became one of ''Jump's'' GoldenAge artists with ''Manga/SaintSeiya''.

Known for his {{Shoujo}}[[RealMenWearPink -esque]] approach to character design, knowledge in physics, mass usage of quotings from various classical literatures, {{philosophers}}, and [[AsTheGoodBookSays The o’l Good Book]], and the [[EverythingsBetterWithSparkles grandiose]] usage of rich screentones while maintaining a RatedMForManly story execution made him the prominent grandfather of the BishonenJumpSyndrome, and became one of ''Jump's'' GoldenAge artists with ''Manga/SaintSeiya''.

Known for his {{Shoujo}}[[RealMenWearPink -esque]] approach in character design, and [[EverythingsBetterWithSparkles grandiose]] usage of rich screentones while maintaining a RatedMForManly story execution made him the prominent grandfather of the BishonenJumpSyndrome, and became one of ''Jump's'' GoldenAge artists with his ''Manga/SaintSeiya''.

Known for his {{Shoujo}}[[RealMenWearPink -esque]] approach in character design, and grandiose usage of rich screentones while maintaining a RatedMForManly story execution made him the prominent grandfather of the BishonenJumpSyndrome, and became one of ''Jump's'' GoldenAge artists with his ''Manga/SaintSeiya''.