Friday, January 17, 2025

Mangaka Information: Kobayashi Susumu (Masaru)

  Friday, January 17, 2025   , , ,


I'm just working on re-building the artist information section of the site. This will be a mess for a while.


Susumu Kobayashi . こばやし将 (Kobayashi Masaru)
ほとんど無名ですが 、今年で漫画家生活43年になりました。20代半ばから30代前半、我が漫画家人生で一番輝いていた時期に描いた作品群が「わんぱっくコミック・リバイバル」として電子書籍化され、配信中です。昔の思い出話や近況、漫画の宣伝等を呟きます 笑

I'm virtually unknown, but this year marks my 43rd year as a manga artist. The works I created in my mid-20s to early 30s, the period when I was at the peak of my career as a manga artist, have been made into e-books and are currently available as "Wanpaku Comic Revival." I'll be tweeting about old memories, my current situation, and promoting my manga, etc. lol


Kobayashi Susumu is a Japanese manga artist . His most well-known works include the comic adaptations of games such as "Valis" and "Dead Zone," which were serialized in "Wanpaku Comics" (Tokuma Shoten). He has written several comic book adaptations of games for game anthologies such as "Winning Techniques Complete Edition" by Wanpaku Comics. He was the last assistant to Mitsuteru Yokoyama | 横山 光輝 and did almost all of the work related to Tetsujin 28 | 鉄人28号 (Source) He appears to have worked with Go Nagai | 永井 豪  (Source) and was a colleague of Mitsuru Hiruta (Devilman) at Dynamic Pro (Source)

List of works:
  • Debut Doujinshi (1978) "Swamp" |「沼」
  • Family Computer Special
  • Manga: The Legend of Zelda 
  • Manga: Super Mario Bros. 1 co authored by Yasuki Suzuo | スーパーマリオブラザーズ 
  • Manga: Super Mario Bros. 2 | スーパーマリオ2
  • Manga: Kid Icarus: Uprising | パルテナの鏡
  • Manga: Valis: The Fantasy Soldier | 夢幻戦士ヴァリス
  • Manga: Dead Zone |  デッドゾーン
  • Bokosuka Wars | ボコスカウォーズ
    • Manga: Woody Poko | うっでいぽこ
  • Art: Decade Dungeon Gaiden Packaging art | ディケイドダンジョン外伝
  • Wancomi Assault Team | わんコミ突撃隊
  • Art: FLAPPY Technique Book | FLAPPY テクニックブック
  • Art: Famimaga Magazine
  • Manga: Dragon Kid | ドラゴン・キッド
  • Super Chinese 2 Dragon Kid | スーパーチャイニーズ2ドラゴン・キッド
  • Art: Udeipoko | うっでいぽこ
  • Art: Hydlide Special | ハイドライド
  • Manga: Hydlide | ハイドライド
  • Art: Tower of Druaga | ドルアーガの塔(Family Computer Encyclopedia Volume 6) ファミリーコンピューター大図鑑PART6
  • Art: Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Electronic Games. | 電子ゲーム決定版大図鑑
  • Art: Electronic Game Encyclopedia | テレビゲーム大図鑑
  • Manga/Art: Tetsujin 28-go | 鉄人28号
  • Famicom Magazine Manga: Battle! Kung Fu Fighter | 対決!カンフーファイター
  • Kinnikuman Muscle Tag Matchキン肉マンマッスルタッグマッチ
  • Restoration work for Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三国志 by Yokoyama Mitsuteru (source)

External links[ edit ]Masaru Kobayashi (@show_kob) - X (old Twitter)
Wanpaku Comic Revival (@ZOx1obzpflsFhhP) - X (old Twitter)















Valis Manga for Wanpakku Comics




私と徳間書店さんとのお仕事のお付き合いはこの銀色の「テレビランドわんぱっく」シリーズから始まりました。本文はかなり大き目のイラストと文章、短いマンガで構成されています。「わんぱっく」という名称もここから始まっています (Source)
My working relationship with Tokuma Shoten began with this silver "TV Land Wanpaku" series. The main text consists of fairly large illustrations, text, and short comics. The name "Wanpaku" also originated from this.



これが私の描いたマリオの最初期の形態かと思われます。おそらくテレビランドわんぱっくシリーズの「ファミリーコンピューター図鑑」に描いたドンキーコングのカットですね。(Source)

This is probably the earliest form of Mario I drew. It's probably a cut of Donkey Kong drawn for the TV Land Wanpaku series' "Family Computer Encyclopedia."