Takenori Ichihara

市原武法

[Twitter](https://twitter.com/editor_ichihara) Joining Shogakukan as an editor for Weekly Shonen Jump in 1997. Takenori Ichihara quickly became well-known throughout the office as being an expert in training new talents. Some of the authors he helped to edit during this period included [Mitsuru Adachi](https://anilist.co/staff/97104/Mitsuru-Adachi), [Hiroyuki Nishimori](https://anilist.co/staff/97770/Hiroyuki-Nishimori), [Takuya Mitsuda](https://anilist.co/staff/99612/Takuya-Mitsuda), [Yellow Tanabe](https://anilist.co/staff/96950/Yellow-Tanabe), and [Taishi Mori](https://anilist.co/staff/111259/Taishi-Mori). He later became the unofficial editor-in-chief for Monthly Shonen Sunday after its creation in 2009. Ichihara then was promoted to editor-in-chief of Weekly Shonen Sunday in 2015, where he started his position by [putting a page-wide declaration in Sunday](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vJAahmN6zQ) stating that the magazine would make nurturing new mangaka their first priority. This "Sunday Reform" would ultimately save Weekly Sunday at a time where editors were afraid the magazine would go out of business, as the influx of new mangaka allowed Sunday to provide hit after

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