Yunokawa Tetsuya

Yunokawa Tetsuya ( Tetsuya Yunokawa) (born October 11, 1979) is a Japanese manga artist. When he first started his career he found himself unable to get his works published. He is currently well known as the writer of the manga series, ''Casters. ''

Biography
Yunokawa Tetsuya was born and raised in Nantan, Kyoto, Japan. He grew up in a very troubled household with a mother and father who argued and fought constantly. Tetsuya grew up a very unhappy child in his dysfunctional home and thus needed a way to express himself before falling into a state of depression. A close friend of Tetsuya turned him onto to drawing although at first he wasn't too interested in it. Despite his lack of interest Tetsuya held a great talent for drawing manga characters and drew a variety of one-shots in his youth.

At the age of seventeen Tetsuya's close friend died in a car accident. After the death of his friend he decided that he would become a manga artist in his honor. Yunokawa took his one-shots to a variety of publishers to see that if they could be put in their magazines. At first Yunokawa's work was overshadowed by that of many other apsiring manga artist and he was thus overlooked. Yunokawa was determined even more by his failures and continued working hard so that he may be able to draw a manga could enough to make it into a magazine.

Yunokawa studied a variety of different professional mangas so that he could comprehend the artistic styles and storylines of other artist. Dragon Ball by Akira Toriyama was one of Tetsuya's most insipirational resources. After doing much research on the different varities of manga, Yunokawa finally discovered that he wished to write a supernatural story. Yunokawa drew up a one-shot about a young boy named Shoin Naijo who came into contact with a bizzare celestial object and gained supernatural powers, becoming a being known as a caster. The one-shot was well recieved and began to circulate in Weekly Shōnen Jump.