Sorry for that 😅 yeah that I'm sure it is it's a Japanese one, I only know the difference between mangas and western comics, the way my reading manga classifies you know sometimes it's confusing... Arashi Takemoto is a mangaka, he does some stories for his characters, but I guess if you heard about him it probably was because of Otake, the big buff dog? Kkkk his stories are cool though if you want to check it out, he has a panther character too.