Satoru Noda

Satoru Noda (Japanese: 野田サトル, Hepburn: Noda Satoru) is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the creator of the manga series Golden Kamuy, for which he won the 2016 Manga Taishō and the 2018 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. Noda was born in Kitahiroshima, Hokkaido, Japan. His great-grandfather was a military settler in Hokkaido and veteran of the Russo-Japanese War; Noda named the protagonist of his manga series Golden Kamuy after him. After moving to Tokyo at the age of 23, he entered the manga industry as an artist assistant. Noda was an assistant to Mitsurou Kubo for two years, and later worked under Yasuyuki Kunitomo. He made his debut as a manga artist in 2003, with the one-shot Kyōko-san no Kyō to iu Kyō (恭子さんの凶という今日, "Kyoko-san's Bad Day") published in Monthly Young Magazine. His second one-shot story, 2006's Gōrī wa Mae Shika Mukanai (ゴーリーは前しか向かない, "The Goalie Always Faces Front"), won a Tetsuya Chiba Award in the Young Artist division.After working as an artist assistant for nearly a decade, Noda made his serialized manga debut in 2011 with Supinamarada!, serialized in Weekly Young Jump. After Supinamarada! was a commercial failure, Noda took a year before developing his next series, 2014's Golden Kamuy. The series would become a widespread critical and commercial success, and won the Manga Taishō in 2016 and the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2018. Following the conclusion of Golden Kamuy in 2022, Noda announced that he would relaunch Supinamarada!. Noda debuted the ice hockey manga reboot under the new name Dogsred in Weekly Young Jump on July 27, 2023.Little is known about Noda's personal life. Though he maintains an online presence and is interviewed by the press about his work, he does not make public appearances; upon winning the Manga Taishō in 2016, the award was accepted by his editor, with Noda delivering an audio-only acceptance speech.