Mitsutoshi Furuya

Mitsutoshi Furuya was a Japanese manga artist. He made his debut as a manga artist in 1955 with kashi-hon manga. He started as an assistant of Osamu Tezuka in 1958, but was primarily known for starting out as an assistant of Fujio Akatsuka five years later. He was best known for his series Dame Oyaji, which gained notoriety by giving a darkly humorous send-up of Japanese family life with a meek, pathetic father married to a cruel and savage wife. The series received the 1979 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen, was adapted into a movie in 1973 and as an anime television series in 1974.
Furuya died on December 8, 2021, at the age of 85.

Selected works

Tangerine Flowers Blooming on a Hill
Netaro-kun
Hachamecha Lab
Pinky-chan
Mako-chan
Princess Pudding-chan - Also published in extra New Year and Spring special issues
No-Good Father
Mandamu Oyako
Dotekabo-chan
Gutara Mama - Prototype to better-known version of the series
Dokudami-sensei
Tecchan
Chitaro of the Graveyard
Tomurai-kun
Gutara Mama
Mother-Loving Chidori
Rakugo Artist Biography
Hachamecharabo
Uwasa no Night Man
Take it Easy Dabo-san
Deduction Papa
BAR Lemon Heart
Our Jingorō
Downtown Mogu - co-authored with Yoshiyuki Ichihara
What is the golf?
Majidesu! Take-chan
Granny's Kitchen Secrets's
Manshon daitōryō