Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Volume 8 - Sumito Oowara

Sumito Oowara was born in 1993 in Kanagawa prefecture in Japan. His father's agricultural school background and involvement in Scouting gave him an interest in nature as a child. Oowara's parents and older sister both drew, and encouraged his own drawing from an early age. As a young student he was bullied because of his learning difficulties in math and kanji, to the extent he avoided attending classes--until he decided to use his drawing skill as a means of self-defense, to assert a place for himself among his peers. \nA member of his film club in high school, Oowara originally drew Eizouken as an amateur manga (doujinshi). Scouted by Japanese manga publisher Shogakukan at the self-publishing convention Comitia (also where Trigun's Yasuhiro Nightow began his career), Oowara developed Eizouken into a full-length manga series, making his professional debut in Monthly Big Comic Spirits magazine in 2016.\n