Norihiro Yagi

Norihiro Yagi (Japanese八 木 教 広, Yagi Norihiro, born 1968 in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist.

His first publication was Yagi 1990 with the short story UNdeadman, for which he won a Young Investigator Award for young artist of Gag manga, the manga magazine Shōnen Jump Gekkan the Akatsuka Award. In this magazine he brought from 1993 to 2000 and his first series out, Angel Densetsu (エンジェル 伝説). This comedy includes about 2,900 pages, which published the publisher Shueisha in 15 anthologies. It's about a teenager who does have a good heart, but is kept because of its ugly appearance for a racket.

Since 2001 he has worked for Gekkan Shōnen Jump, or since its setting for Jump Square on the manga Claymore, which currently consists of approximately 4,000 pages in 20 anthologies (February 2012). The based in a medieval world series with a girl against the people must fight demons threatening than Claymore. The fantasy manga was in Japan over four million copies sold and implemented as an anime television series in 2007.

His work is translated into Indonesian, English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Korean and Italian.