Tadashi Kawashima (河島 正, Kawashima Tadashi) (April 7, 1969 – June 15, 2010^[1]) was a Japanese manga artist and writer from Ehime Prefecture. He is best known for writing the manga Alive: The Final Evolution.

Career

Kawashima made his professional debut with Daughter Maker, which ran in Kōdansha's Monthly Shōnen Magazine Zōkan Great. From October 2003 to October 2009, Kawashima collaborated with Adachitoka to create Alive -Saishū Shinkateki Shōnen-, which was published in Kōdansha's Monthly Shōnen Magazine. Kawashima succumbed to liver cancer on June 15, 2010, and died at the age of 41,^[1] having finished Alive on his deathbed.