Homura Kawamoto

Homura Kawamoto is a Japanese manga writer and artist, known above all for creating the series Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler, which he launched in 2014 in the magazine Gangan Joker. He began posting manga in 2009 on the Nitosha manga website under the pen name Gyunyu, meaning milk. Kakegurui has sold more than five million copies in print and has received several adaptations, notably an anime television series, while a spin-off, Kakegurui Twin, followed in 2015. Since then he has written or co-created a long list of manga, anime and game projects, including The War of Greedy Witches, Build Divide, High Card, Beyblade X and the video game Yurukill: The Calumniation Games. His 2021 series Cheat Slayer was cancelled after a single chapter when readers noticed similarities to other popular series, and he apologized publicly.