Takahiro Ozawa

In 2001, he won the 39th Chiba Tetsuya Grand Prize in the general category of the 39th Chiba Tetsuya Award for "Chabudai".
In the same year, "Chabudai Kenta" was serialized. His masterpiece "Dai Tokyo Toy Box" won second place at the Manga Awards 2012, was recommended by the jury of the Japan Media Arts Award 2013, and was also made into a TV drama in 2014. In addition, "Tom Sawyer in the South," in which a child from the city survives on a remote island in Okinawa with an iPhone in one hand, "Steves," which depicts the division of Silicon Valley in the 1970s, centering on Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, and "Kyokuman," a documentary manga about the Antarctic Research Expedition.

In 2010, he became the first Japan manga artist to self-publish Aozora Finder Rock on the Amazon Kindle Store. In 2012, a project to raise funds for the writing of the web manga "STEVES" on a crowdfunding site reached the target amount in the fastest time in history at the time, and attracted attention for its attempt to combine manga with services and platforms on the web.