| Kazuyoshi Torii | |
| Native Name: | とりいかずよし |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Birth Place: | Kamata, Eda-gun, Aichi Prefecture, Allied-occupied Japan |
| Death Place: | Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan |
| Occupation: | Manga artist |
Kazuyoshi Torii (12 November 1946 – 9 February 2022) was a Japanese manga artist and university professor.
Born in Kamata, a defunct village today part of Okazaki, Torii started his career as an assistant of Fujio Akatsuka.[1] He made his official debut as a mangaka in 1968 in Weekly Shōnen Sunday with the manga Kuchinashi Inu ("Dog With No Mouth").[1] He is best known for the provoking, taboo-free serializated manga ("Professor Toilet").[2] [3] [4] The manga debuted in Weekly Shōnen Jump and sold over 10 million copies.[1] [5]
Besides his activity as an artist, Torii was a manga professor at the Aichi Shukutoku University.[1] He died of pancreatic cancer in Nagoya on 9 February 2022, at the age of 75.