Disappearance Diary (Japanese:失踪日記,Hepburn:ShissōNikki) is a manga by Hideo Azuma and published by East Press in Japan in March 2005. The manga is a somewhat-fictionalized autobiography of part of the author's life and of his alcohol dependency problems. It has received multiple awards inside and outside Japan. In addition to being published in Japan,this book has been licensed and published in English,French,Spanish,German,Italian,Russian and Polish.
About.com's Deb Aoki lists Disappearance Diary as the best new one-shot manga of 2008 along with Solanin . [5]
Yotsuba&! is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kiyohiko Azuma,the creator of Azumanga Daioh. It has been serialized since January 2003 in the monthly magazine Dengeki Daioh by ASCII Media Works,formerly MediaWorks,and has since been collected into 15 tankōbon volumes. It depicts the everyday adventures of a young girl named Yotsuba as she learns about the world around her,guided by her adoptive father,their neighbors,and their friends. Several characters in Yotsuba&! were previously featured in a one-shot manga by Azuma called "Try! Try! Try!" The phrase Yotsuba to means "Yotsuba and," a fact reflected in the chapter titles,most of which take the form "Yotsuba and [something]."
Monster is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa. It was published by Shogakukan in their seinen manga magazine Big Comic Original between December 1994 and December 2001,with its chapters collected in 18 tankōbon volumes. The story revolves around Kenzo Tenma,a Japanese surgeon living in Düsseldorf,Germany whose life enters turmoil after getting himself involved with Johan Liebert,one of his former patients,who is revealed to be a dangerous serial killer.
Naoki Urasawa is a Japanese manga artist and musician. He has been drawing manga since he was four years old,and for most of his professional career has created two series simultaneously. The stories to many of these were co-written in collaboration with his former editor,Takashi Nagasaki. Urasawa has been called one of the artists that changed the history of manga and has won numerous awards,including the Shogakukan Manga Award three times,the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize twice,and the Kodansha Manga Award once. By December 2021,his various works had over 140 million copies in circulation worldwide.
Takeshi Obata is a Japanese manga artist that usually works as the illustrator in collaboration with a writer. He first gained international attention for Hikaru no Go (1999–2003) with Yumi Hotta,but is better known for Death Note (2003–2006) and Bakuman (2008–2012) with Tsugumi Ohba. Obata has mentored several well-known manga artists,including Nobuhiro Watsuki of Rurouni Kenshin fame,Black Cat creator Kentaro Yabuki,and Eyeshield 21 artist Yusuke Murata.
Pluto is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Original from September 2003 to April 2009,with its chapters collected into eight tankōbon volumes. The series is based on Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy,specifically "The Greatest Robot on Earth" story arc,and named after the arc's chief villain. Urasawa reinterprets the story as a suspenseful murder mystery starring Gesicht,a Europol robot detective trying to solve the case of a string of robot and human deaths. Takashi Nagasaki is credited as the series' co-author. Macoto Tezka,Osamu Tezuka's son,supervised the series,and Tezuka Productions is listed as having given cooperation.
Tsugumi Ohba is the pen name of a Japanese manga writer,best known for authoring the Death Note manga series with illustrator Takeshi Obata from 2003 to 2006,which has 30 million collected volumes in circulation. The duo's second series,Bakuman. (2008–2012),was also successful with 15 million in circulation. In 2014,Ohba collaborated with My Little Monster creator Robico for the one-shot "Skip! Yamada-kun". Another series with Obata,Platinum End,was serialized in the monthly Jump SQ from November 4,2015,to January 4,2021.
Akimi Yoshida is a Japanese manga artist and a graduate of Musashino Art University. She made her professional debut in 1977 with the short story Chotto Fushigi na Geshukunin,published in Bessatsu Shōjo Comic magazine. Yoshida is best known for the crime thriller series Banana Fish,which received an anime adaptation produced by MAPPA in 2018.
Hideo Azuma was a Japanese manga artist. Azuma made his professional debut in 1969 in the Akita Shoten manga magazine Manga Ō. He was most well known for his science fiction lolicon-themed works appearing in magazines such as Weekly Shōnen Champion,as well as children's comedy series such as Nanako SOS and Little Pollon. He has been called the "father of lolicon".
Solanin is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Inio Asano. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Young Sunday from 2005 to 2006. In North America,the manga was licensed for English language release by Viz Media.
Undercurrent is a drama manga by manga author Tetsuya Toyoda. The manga was serialized in Japan by Kodansha in the monthly seinen magazine Afternoon from October 2004 to 2005,and the 11 chapters were collected into a single bound volume. A French translation was published by Kana in its collection Made in in 2008.
Umimachi Diary is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akimi Yoshida. It was serialized in Shogakukan's josei manga magazine Monthly Flowers from the August 2006 issue to the August 2018 issue.
Children of the Sea is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Daisuke Igarashi. It was serialized in Shōgakukan's seinen manga magazine Monthly Ikki from December 2005 to September 2011. Shōgakukan has collected the series into five tankōbon volumes published between July 2007 and July 2012. The manga is licensed in North America by Viz Media,who serialized it online at SigIkki.com and released the five tankōbon volumes from July 2009 to June 2013.
GoGo Monster is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by TaiyōMatsumoto.
Hikaru Nakamura is a Japanese manga artist. She debuted in 2001 with the short story Kairi no Sue (海里の陶),published in Monthly Gangan Wing. She is best known as the creator of the manga series Arakawa Under the Bridge and Saint Young Men,the latter of which won a Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2009. A Nikkei Entertainment magazine article published in August 2011 listed her ninth overall among the top 50 manga creators by sales since 2010,with 5.54 million copies sold. Her artwork has also been featured in two manga exhibitions at the British Museum in London,England. Nakamura gave birth to her first child,a daughter,in November 2011.
A Drifting Life is a thinly veiled autobiographical Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Tatsumi that chronicles his life from 1945 to 1960,the early stages of his career as a cartoonist. The book earned Tatsumi the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize,and won two Eisner Awards.
Helter Skelter is a Japanese psychological horror manga written and illustrated by Kyoko Okazaki. It was serialized in Feel Young magazine from 1995 to 1996 and collected into a single tankōbon volume by Shodensha on April 8,2003. The story was adapted into a 2012 live-action film directed by Mika Ninagawa and starring Erika Sawajiri. The manga was released in English by Vertical in 2013.
Akira Sasō is a Japanese manga artist and educator. He has won a Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and two Japan Media Arts Awards,the latter for his manga Shindō (1997–98) and Maestro (2003–07).
Takemitsuzamurai or Takemitsu Zamurai is a Japanese historical samurai manga series written by Issei Eifuku and illustrated by TaiyōMatsumoto. It was published in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spiritsseinen manga magazine,with its chapters collected in eight wideban volumes.
Yoshitoki Ōima is a Japanese manga artist and writer,best known for her manga series A Silent Voice and To Your Eternity.
Shohei Manabe is a Japanese manga artist. Writing and drawing gritty seinen manga about the Japanese underworld,he is best known for Ushijima the Loan Shark (2004–2019),which won the Shogakukan Manga Award and spawned several films and series.