Sakae Esuno

Sakae Esuno (えすの サカエ, Esuno Sakae, born November 17, 1973) is the creator of The Future Diary and Big Order.

He won the 11th Ace & Next Newcomer Manga Award Encouragement Award for his one-shot debut Railway Angel in 2001. He then began the series Hanako and the Terror of Allegory in Monthly Shōnen Ace in 2004. Three of his manga have been published in English by Tokyopop and Yen Press respectively.

Background
In 2001, Sakae Esuno won the 11th Ace & Next Newcomer Manga Award Encouragement Award for his one-shot debut Railway Angel. In April 2004, he began his first manga series, Hanako and the Terror of Allegory in Monthly Shōnen Ace. The manga ended in September 2005 with 4 volumes. In January 2006, he began his most famous series, Future Diary, which was also published in Monthly Shōnen Ace. Two side stories were published from 2007 to 2010. The manga was finished in December 2010, and an OVA by the animation studio Asread was released with the limited edition of the 11th volume was also released in December 2010. An anime television series adaptation of all 12 volumes titled The Future Diary was also produced by Asread and aired from October 2011 to April 2012 for 26 episodes. An epilogue manga was published in July 2013, along with an epilogue OVA, again produced by Asread. His third series, Big Order, began it’s publication in Monthly Shōnen Ace in September 2011, and ended in July 2016. Asread produced an OVA that was released in October 2015 and a 10 episode anime adaptation that aired from April to June 2016. His fourth and most recent series, The Detective Akechi is Berserk, ran in Monthly Shōnen Ace from March 2017 to December 2018 for 4 volumes. He is currently working on the manga adaptation of the light novel series Reign of the Seven Spellblades, which he began in Monthly Shōnen Ace in May 2019.

Works

 * 1) Railroad Angel (2001, Monthly Ace Next) [One-shot]
 * 2) Mail from Heart (2003, Monthly Shōnen Ace) [One-shot]
 * 3) Hanako and the Terror of Allegory (2004-2005, Monthly Shōnen Ace) [4 Volumes; Published in English by Tokyopop]
 * 4) Future Diary (2006-2010, Monthly Shōnen Ace) [12 Volumes; Volumes 1-0 published in English by Tokyopop]
 * 5) Future Diary Mosaic (2007-2008, Ace Assault) [1 Volume]
 * 6) Future Diary Paradox (2009-2010, Ace Assault/Young Ace) [1 Volume]
 * 7) Big Order (2011-2016, Monthly Shōnen Ace) [10 Volumes; Published in English by Yen Press]
 * 8) Future Diary: Redial (2013, Monthly Shōnen Ace) [1 Volume]
 * 9) The Detective Akechi is Berserk (2017-2018, Monthly Shōnen Ace) [4 Volumes]
 * 10) Reign of the Seven Spellblades (2019-, Monthly Shōnen Ace) [2+ Volumes; Written by Bokuto Uno]

Future Diary, Big Order, and Future Diary: Redial all got OVAs, with the first two also getting anime television series.