Haganai
The first "Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai" manga series, written and illustrated by Itachi, has been published in Media Factory's "Monthly Comic Alive" magazine since its May 2010 issue, released on March 27, 2010. Additionally, the series has been collected in 14 "tankōbon" volumes. Seven Seas Entertainment has licensed the first manga series in North America under the title "Haganai: I Don't Have Many Friends".
Yoshinori Kobayashi
A student of French literature from Fukuoka University, Kobayashi published his first manga, "Tōdai Itchokusen" (東大一直線, Beeline to Tokyo U), in 1976 in "Weekly Shōnen Jump" while still in school. Another of his early series, , a satire about a haughty rich boy in the heyday of Japan's bubble economy, won the 1989 Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga.