One of his well-known series, Abusan was serialized in Shogakukan’s Big Comic Original for 41 years from 1973 to 2014.
He announced his retirement in December 2020, with his last work Abusan – Tama Kegerenaku Michi Kewashi (The ball is clean, the road is hard), published in Big Comic Original.
It is confirmed today that Shinji Mizushima, a renowned manga artist known for his baseball-themed series such as Dokaben, Yakyukyo no Uta, and Abusan, passed away of pneumonia at a hospital in Tokyo on on January 10, 2022.