Leiji Matsumoto (1938-2023)

“Manga artist Leiji Matsumoto has departed for the sea of stars.” That was how his daughter Makiko Matsumoto, who heads his office Studio Leijisha, announced Matsumoto’s death on 13th February of acute heart failure in a Tokyo hospital, at the age of 85. Born in 1938, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Matsumoto grew up on […]
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