Mitsuteru Yokoyama

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Mitsuteru Yokoyama
Born	June 18, 1934 Kobe, Japan
Died	April 15, 2004 (aged 69) Tokyo, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Manga artist
Known for	Tetsujin 28-go Giant Robo

Mitsuteru Yokoyama (横山光輝, Yokoyama Mitsuteru^?, June 18, 1934 – April 15, 2004) was a famous Japanese manga artist. His works include Gigantor, Giant Robo, Akakage, Babel II, Sally, the Witch, Princess Comet and an adaptation of the wuxia novel Outlaws of the Marsh.

Yokoyama's lifework was the sixty volumes Sangokushi, a retelling of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, published from 1971 to 1986 in Ushio Shuppansha's Comic Tom. In 1991, an animated version was broadcast on TV Tokyo and the manga recognized by the Japan Cartoonist Association.^[1]

Yokoyama died in a fire at his home in Tokyo. He was found unconscious in bed with severe burns and died 16 hours later at a hospital near his home.^[2]