Junichi Yamakawa

Junichi Yamakawa (山川純一, Yamakawa Jun'ichi) is a pseudonymous Japanese manga artist, whose works in the gay manga genre were published in the gay men's magazine Barazoku and its manga supplement Bara-Komi in the 1980s. Distinguished by his works depicting male–male sexual relations with heightened and exaggerated storylines, Yamakawa is best known for his manga Kuso Miso Technique, published in Bara-Komi in 1987. While Yamakawa's manga was originally published in relative obscurity, Kuso Miso Technique gained notoriety as an Internet meme in the early 2000s, leading to newfound public interest in the artist's manga.