Daisuke Terasawa (寺沢大介, Terasawa Daisuke, born 10 June 1959 in
Kobe, Japan) is a Japanese
manga artist. He is best known for writing
cooking manga series such as Mister Ajikko and Shōta no Sushi, which earned him twice the
Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen in 1988 and 1996 respectively.[1] Both series have been adapted as dramas, the latter as a
live-action television series, the former as the first cooking
anime television series.[2]