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 owns a cat named Kahluamilk whom he uses to assist him in drawing "Karupin", a character in his The Prince of Tennis. He has said that bathing inspires him to think of new ideas for manga..

Financial standing

Every year the National Tax Agency

National Tax Agency

The is the official tax collecting agency of Japan and a government ministry. As of 2008, its Commissioner was Michito Ishii.-External links:...

 releases a list of the highest income tax payers for entertainers in Japan. The higher someone's income tax, the higher their actual presumed earnings; however it is possible for a person to have paid more taxes than another person who made more money. Takeshi Konomi placed number nine on this list in 2002.

Works

• The Prince of Tennis
  The Prince of Tennis
  is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Takeshi Konomi. The title is often shortened to , a portmanteau of the two parts in the Japanese pronunciation of the words "Tennis Prince". The manga was first published in Japan in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump in July 1999, and ended...
  
  , a manga about tennis and at one time the most popular sports manga in Japan (July 1999 – March 2008)
• The New Prince of Tennis, a continuation of The Prince of Tennis where Ryoma returns to Japan (March 2009 – present)
• Cool -Rental Body Guard-
• Moon Walker, latest one-shot manga