Person: Houjou Tsukasa

Houjou Tsukasa, born on March 5, 1959, in Kitakyushu, Japan is a Japanese mangaka. He studied technical design while still at Kyushu Sangyo University, where he began to draw manga. He worked on several one-shot stories before releasing his serialized works: Cat's Eye, City Hunter and Angel Heart.

Houjou claims that he really did not have any inspiration for these works other than having to meet a deadline. He says he wrote down a few things, he thought about a few things, and one day the ideas just came to him, out of thin air. In reality, the process was a lot more complicated, with editors involved, but fans got the benefit of Houjou's sense of adventure and humor.

After the success of Cat's Eye and City Hunter, Houjou went on to work on other series such as Family Compo. His current ongoing series is Angel Heart, a spinoff of City Hunter set in an alternate universe. It has been serialized in the Weekly Comic Bunch since 2001 and 30 collected volumes has been published so far.

Houjou Tsukasa is Inoue Takehiko's mentor. Inoue worked as an assistant to Houjou during the production of City Hunter. Houjou is also a long-time acquaintance of Fist of the North Star illustrator Hara Tetsuo, who was also one of the founders of Coamix. Houjou contributed to the production Fist of the North Star: The Legends of the True Savior film series by designing the character of Reina.

He was honor guest of the eleventh French Japan Expo which was held in July 2010.