Tamakichi Sakura

Tamakichi Sakura (桜玉吉) (born March 2nd, 1961) is a Japanese manga artist, or mangaka. He has also written as Charlie Nozawa (チャーリー野沢). Sakura authored The Shape of Happiness, three two-page long stories based on Metroid that were released in a tankobon in March 1989. Sakura later authored the Super Mario Adventures comic anthology in Nintendo Power, and designed characters for the games Dungeon Land, Pikiinya!, the Sansara Naga series and Tower Dream. His blood type is A.