Minoru Furuya (?? ? , Furuya Minoru, born 1972-03-28 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist . His debut work was Ike! Inach? takky?-bu, known in English as Ping-Pong Club, published in Young Magazine. In 1996, he won the Kodansha Manga Award for Ping-Pong Club.