The official website for Shueisha’s Weekly Young Jump announced today that manga artist Makoto Ogino passed away on April 29 due to kidney failure.
His last serialization series were Kujaku-Oh: Rising in Shogakukan’s Monthly Big Comic Spirits (2012-) and Kujaku-Oh: Sengoku Tensei in Leed’s Comic Ran (2012-).
He made his professional manga artist debut with Kujaku-Oh in Weekly Young Jump in 1985.