Naoshi Arakawa debuted in 2009 with the soccer manga, Sayonara, Football, going on to create the hit classical music manga Your Lie in April, which was adapted into a successful TV anime. He is currently drawing high-school soccer manga Farewell, My Dear Cramer, which is available digitally and in print.

Naoshi Arakawa made his debut as a manga artist in 2007 with Tsumetai Kousha no Toki wa Tomaru (A School Frozen in Time), a manga adaptation of the award-winning mystery novel by Mizuki Tsujimura. He made his U.S. debut in 2015 with Your Lie in April, which along with its anime adaptation in 2015, became a hit with American audiences. His most recent series is Farewell, My Dear Cramer, which is currently available as a simulpub series and is the sequel to his Sayonara, Football manga about girls' soccer.