The editors of Kodansha’s Evening magazine announced on Monday that manga creator Hiroto Wada suddenly passed away on July 18 due to a cerebral hemorrhage and other contributing factors.
The magazine editors expressed their sorrow and regret on Wada’s untimely passing and what it meant for the plans he still had for the future.
Wada’s manga titles include Phara-o, a comedy about an Egyptian pharaoh in modern Tokyo which he drew from 2017 to 2018.
He then serialized another story about a character out of time, the Disney Manga: Stitch and the Samurai (Tono-sama to Stitch) in 2020, and Tokyopop published two of the manga’s three volumes so far this year.