Sakuga Group

Sakuga Group (Japanese: 作画グループ, Hepburn: Sakuga Gurūpu) is a Japanese manga dōjin group. It was active from 1962 to 2016. The official name of the group is Japan Unified Story Work Research Artwork Group (日本統一ストーリィ作品研究会作画グループ). The representative of the group is Osaka-born Yoshiaki Baba, who established the group while in junior high school. Although it was a group of amateurs, many professional mangaka also enrolled.

Main activities

Another member criticized the manga reviewed by the member, and it was published in the newsletter.

They did not participate in dōjinshi spot sale, but they published dōjin books Nakama for members and GROUP (issued by SG Planning) that can also be obtained at bookstore route. Meanwhile, thinking that direct viewing of manga manuscripts leads to an improvement in technique, he was producing a "circulation magazine" that stitched manga manuscripts into books until the 1980s.

There were members who became professional mangaka. Yuki Hijiri's Locke the Superman was first published for members of the Sakuga Group in 1967, and was later serialized in a Shōnen King. As the fans joined, in the 1980s the number of members exceeded 1,000.

Gassaku

Gassaku ("collaboration") where many members jointly write manga was also done, and it was published in manga magazines. List works that are individually published as books.

• Akira,Mio Daihyōryū (アキラ・ミオ大漂流) - Weekly Shōnen Magazine, (1972)
• Dariusu no Kaze (ダリウスの風) - Weekly Shōjo Comic, (1977)
• Ginga wo Tsugu mono (銀河を継ぐもの) - Weekly Shōjo Friend, (1981)
• Issenman-nin no Futari (1000万人の2人) - Weekly Shōnen King, (1978)
• Berenusu no Robin - Honoo no Densetsu (ベレヌスのロビン 炎の伝説) - Shōnen King, (1982)
• Berenusu no Robin - Honoo no Senshi (ベレヌスのロビン 炎の戦士) - Sakuga Group series, (1984)

Member of a professional Artists

Mangaka

• Ryō Azumi
• Yoku Hayami
• Yuki Hijiri
• Ayano Kitahara
• Natsuno Kiyohara
• Tomoko Kōsaka
• Tarō Minamoto
• Kei Shimizu (artist)
• Kazuki Yamamoto

Novelist

• Eiji Ōtsuka
• Kazuyuki Takami