Manga master Shinji Mizushima passed away, representative baseball manga “Big Rice Bucket”
Manga master and author of “Big Rice Bucket” Shinji Mizushima died of pneumonia in a hospital in Tokyo, Japan on the 10th of this month at the age of 82.
Mizushima Shinji was born in Niigata, Japan. He debuted as a cartoonist in 1958, and has successively published works themed on baseball. Among them, the baseball comic “Big Rice Bucket”, which began in 1972, is his masterpiece that has lasted for more than 10 years. The serialization of the comic ended in 2018, and the single-line series has accumulated more than 205 copies, which have been read by many readers across generations.
In addition, Sega released a baseball game in 2003, called “Professional Baseball Mizushima Shinji All-Star VS Professional Baseball”, which landed on PS2 and NGC platforms. In the game, a total of 35 comic characters written by Mizushima Shinji have appeared.
On December 1, 2020, Shinji Mizushima announced his retirement, an obituary about a year later. Return to Sohu, see more
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