is a Japanese manga artist

Mangaka

is the Japanese word for a comic artist or cartoonist. Outside of Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese...

. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan College of Aeronautical Engineering. His drawing style is very similar to that of Akira Toriyama

Akira Toriyama

is a Japanese manga artist and game artist known mostly for his creation of Dragon Ball in 1984. Toriyama admires Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy and was impressed by Walt Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians, which he remembers for the great art...

. He is associated with Weekly Shōnen Jump

Weekly Shonen Jump

is a weekly shōnen manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. The first issue was released with a cover date of July 2, 1968, and it is still circulating. One of the longest-running manga magazines in Japan, it has a circulation of 2.8 million copies...

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Much to his, and his fans dismay, Inada has been ill since September 2006, which led to the hiatus of Beet the Vandel Buster at volume 12.

Selected works

• Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibōken Story by Riku Sanjo
  Riku Sanjo
  is a Japanese manga artist. He has worked as both a story writer for manga and anime. He graduated from Meiji University.-Anime:*Gaiking*MD Geist*Digimon Xros Wars*Digimon Xros Wars: Time Traveling Hunter Boys-External links:...
  
  
• Beet the Vandel Buster
  Beet the Vandel Buster
  is a manga and anime series written by Riku Sanjo and illustrated by Koji Inada.The manga was published in Shueisha's Monthly Shōnen Jump in Japan until the illustrator Inada became ill. The magazine later ceased publication leaving the future of the manga unknown at this time. VIZ Media publishes...
  
  Story by Riku Sanjo