Takeda Kazuyoshi is a manga author-artist known most for the titles Bye-Bye Beanbag and anime-adapted Peleliu: Guernica of Paradise, a manga detailing the lives of WWII Japanese soldiers during a high-casualty, monthslong battle on Peleliu island. With a knack for historical fiction and nonfiction, Kazuyoshi has written short biographical manga on his relationship as an assistant to bestselling author Oku Hiroya of Gantz, Gigant, and Inuyashiki. Kazuyoshi is known to handle despondent themes with a lighter comic art yet an earnestly aspirational voice. He was awarded a merit of excellence at the 46th Nihon Manga Kyoukai Shou.