Francesco Bellissimo

is an Italian manga artist,chef and famous Italian tarento transplanted in Japan. He studied at the Fourth State 'Liceo' specializing in art subjects "Alessandro Caravillani" in Rome, and pursued philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome
. After that, he joined the Italian Army voluntarily and served in the military School of Infantry of . He was the first Italian mangaka to publish his own Italian-style comic series in Japan: "Roma-kun", publisher: NHK (Japan Broadcast Publishing). Francesco writes for various japanese fashion and cooking magazines.
Roma-kun
Bellissimo aims to introduce Italian culture through his cartoon strip of Roma-kun.
In order to help the audience easily understand Italian culture, he employs characters that are famous in real life (for example Leonardo da Vinci or Marco Polo). The cartoon strip is simple in nature with an Italian touch. Simplicity is employed with purpose to bring out Italy in its most authentic form and to help audience easily understand the country better.
Television
Appearing as himself, guest, assistant or actor in many nationwide (Japan) variety shows like.
* Waratte Iitomo (Fuji Television)
* Konnichiwa Itto6ken (NHK)
* Oha Suta (TV Tokyo)
* Generation Jungle (NTV)
* Ariga Satsuki no Terebi no Waruguchi (NTV)
* Wanagona (TBS)
* Pittanko Cancan (TBS)
* Soccer World Cup (SkyPerfecTV)
* Koi suru Baishinin (Fuji Television)
* Unbelievable (Fuji Television)
* Kaiji Game1 (Fuji Television)
* Sma Station 3 (TVAsahi)
* iD (TVAsahi)
 
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