The official X (formerly Twitter) account of Shogakukan’s Big Comic Original magazine announced on Thursday that manga creator Nobuhiro Sakata had died on Monday.
Sakata and Kazama launched the long-running Kaze no Daichi golf manga in Big Comic Original in 1991.
Sakata and Bucchigiri manga creator Yuu Nakahara’s Naoko manga ran in Shogakukan’s Big Comic Spirits magazine from 1994 to 2003.
The final chapter of Sakata and the late Eiji Kazama’s Kaze no Daichi golf manga was about the British Open.