Kōji Kumeta

Koji Kumeta (Japanese久 米 田 康 治, Kumeta Koji; born September 5, 1967 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist.

He worked for a time as an assistant mangaka Mitsuru Adachi. In 1990, he won a talent competition at the Shogakukan publishing house with Yuke! Nangoku Ice Hockey Bu (行け!南国 アイス ホッケー 部). This award-winning work in 1991 eventually expanded into a series and published from then on in the manga magazine Shōnen Sunday. At this gag manga series he worked until 1996. Yuke! Nankoku Ice Hockey Bu was issued after the magazine published in 23 books.

Also the rest of the movement of the artist consists of humorous gag manga. From 1996 to 1997 was published in Shōnen Sunday 's series Taiyo no Senshi pokapoka (太陽の戦士ポカポカ). With a circumference of 26 books longer than Yuke! Nankoku Ice Hockey Bu is Katte ni Kaizo (かってに改蔵), a comic, drew on the Kumeta 1998-2004 for Shōnen Sunday. In this manga a seventeen year old high school student is in the foreground, who believes everything around him had to do with alien invasions and other things supernatural.

2005 moved to Kumeta Kodansha publishing house, in which Shōnen Magazine he has since the series Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei (さよなら絶望先生) published. This is about a very pessimistic teacher and his school life. Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei won the 2007 Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category, and is currently implemented as an anime television series. The manga is translated into Chinese, English, French and Korean.

The comic artist Kenjiro Hata was employed by him as an assistant.