Line #23 Creator/YuuseiMatsui


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3	->''"I try to avoid men's ideal image of a heroine and women's ideal image of heroes, because they come across as fake. I want to make them like normal existing people... I mean I want to aspire to make the acts and reactions of the characters realistic."''
4	-->-- '''Yuusei Matsui, in this [[http://nougami-neuro.livejournal.com/174286.html interview]]'''
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6	Yūsei Matsui is a Japanese manga artist for [[Magazine/ShonenJump Weekly Shonen Jump]]. He is best known for being the author of ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro'' (''"Demon Detective Neuro Nougami"''), which remains a cult classic to this day, and ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'', which maintains a lot of popularity in Japan and became a hit in the West. Between these two serializations, Matsui created two one-shot stories: ''Rikon Choutei'' (''"Divorce Concilation"'') and ''Tokyo Depato Sensou Taikenki'' (''"Tokyo Department War Memoir"'').
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8	It was revealed that the ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure JoJo]]'' franchise was one of Matsui's biggest influences during an [[https://imgur.com/a/vZR5V interview]] with the series' creator, Creator/HirohikoAraki. Before becoming a mangaka, he worked as an assistant for Yoshio Sawai, the creator of ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo''. Now you know where the inspiration for the gigantic, surreal monsters and the sense of humor found in his works came from.
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10	!!Works by Yuusei Matsui:
11	* ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro'': 2005-2009
12	* ''Rikon Choutei'': A one-shot created in 2009 about a man dragging a gigantic sword across a barren, post-apocalyptic earth.
13	* ''Tokyo Depato Sensou Taikenki'': A one-shot created in 2011 starring a bounty hunter who hunts deadly, high quality department store goods for profit. The story wasn't approved by WSJ for serialization, so many of the planned character designs were used in ''Assassination Classroom'' instead.
14	* ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'': 2012-2016
15	* ''Matsui Yuusei Eats Araki Hirohiko's Cooking'': A special project done in 2013 where Matsui drew an eight page report on Creator/HirohikoAraki's cooking. Can be read in its entirety [[https://imgur.com/a/vZR5V here]].
16	* ''F-Ken'': A one-shot created in 2019 about a kendo club harnessing the power of the fetish. Can be read for free [[https://www.viz.com/shonenjump/f-ken-chapter-1/chapter/18747 here]].
17	* ''Manga/TheElusiveSamurai'': 2021-present
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21	!!Tropes associated with Yuusei Matsui and his works:
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23	* AuthorAvatar: A simple, round thing with two arms and a face--inside of an eyeball. Serves as a character in his cooking project, his avatar around Jump's magazine, and makes a cameo in one chapter of ''The Elusive Samurai''.
24	* ArtEvolution: Matsui's artwork started out a bit rough, and he even admitted that he wasn't too good at drawing humans. But over the course of ''Neuro'''s run, his artwork noticeably improved. As seen in his one-shots and later serializations, his art as a whole gradually evolved from a sketchy, realistic style to the simpler, bolded designs seen in ''Assassination Classroom'' to the refined, detailed artwork in ''The Elusive Samurai''.
25	* BlueAndOrangeMorality: His main characters usually have an odd morality code. His most popular series feature an apathetic [[Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro demon]] who's [[ThouShallNotKill never killed a human himself]] because he needs to eat mysteries fueled by humanity's evil to stay alive, and a goofy [[Manga/AssassinationClassroom octopus]] hellbent on both destroying the Earth ''and'' becoming the best teacher ever.
26	* OurMonstersAreWeird: Surreal monster designs are a staple of his works, whether they be exaggerated humans or actual monsters.
27	* SurrealHumor: Just look at the premises for everything he's written. And the characters. ''And'' [[WorldOfPun his sense]] [[BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine of humor.]]
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