Born April 8th, 1967, in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. His representative works include ‘TRIGUN’ (1995), ‘TRIGUN MAXIMUM’ (1997), ‘Blood Blockade Battlefront’ (2009), ‘SAMURAI SPIRITS’ (the comic book adaptation in 2013), and ‘GUNGRAVE’ (the author and the character designer of the video game series since 2002). Nightow is also the presiding official of the toy manufacturing brand ‘TOY TRIBE.’