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Hirayasumi
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by . It has been serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazine ''Weekly Big Comic Spirits'' since April 2021. Plot Hiroto Ikuta is a 29-year-old freelance worker employed at a fishing pond. His approachable demeanor attracts frequent interactions with elderly patrons, though he becomes nervous around women he finds attractive. Originally from Yamagata, he abandoned his acting aspirations after repeatedly failing auditions. He regularly visits 83-year-old Hanae Wada, a retired school cook who lives on pension, sharing meals at her home. After Hanae's sudden death from myocardial infarction, Ikuta inherits her house through prearranged paperwork. He subsequently houses his 18-year-old cousin Natsumi Kobayashi, an art school applicant, becoming her guardian in the inherited residence. Publication Written and illustrated by , ''Hirayasumi'' started in Shogakukan's manga magazine ''Weekly Big Comic Spirits'' on April 26, 2021. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manga Taishō
The is a Japanese List of comics awards, comics award recognizing achievement in manga. It is awarded annually to a manga series published in the previous calendar year of eight or fewer Tankōbon, collected volumes in length. The Manga Taishō was founded with the aim of recognizing new and relatively unestablished manga, and to provide a platform to promote these works to new readers. To this end, the prize utilizes a judging criteria of recognizing manga one would "want to recommend to friends", rather than a strictly meritocratic evaluation of artistic excellence. The prize is presented by the Manga Taishō Executive Committee, a volunteer group of roughly one hundred "manga lovers from all walks of life", primarily bookstore workers who manage in-store manga sections. Individuals directly involved with the manga industry, such as manga artists, authors, book designers, and editors, are barred from sitting on the committee; this distinguishes the Manga Taishō from the majo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shogakukan Manga
A list of manga published by Shogakukan, listed by release date. For an alphabetical list, see :Shogakukan manga. 1950s 1953 *'' UTOPIA Saigo no Sekai Taisen'' 1959 *'' Dr. Thrill'' *'' Dynamic 3'' *'' Kaikyuu x Arawaru!!'' *''The Lone Ranger'' *'' Maboroshi Taisho'' *'' Ryuichi Yoru Banashi'' *'' Tonkatsu-chan'' *'' Uchuu Shōnen Tonda'' *'' Umi no Ouji'' *'' Zero Man'' 1960s 1960 *'' Boku wa Jonbe he'' *'' Captain Ken'' *'' Denko Red'' *'' Kakedaze Dash'' *'' Kon-chan'' *'' Pink-chan'' *'' Seibangou 0 Monogatari'' *'' Shippo Eitaro'' *'' Yarikuri Tengoku'' 1961 *'' Bun Bun'' *'' Iga no Kagemaru'' *'' Kon-chan Torimonocho'' *'' Konchaasu Bon Taro'' *'' Seton's Wild Animals'' *'' Shiroi Pilot'' *'' Shonen Kenia'' *'' Uchuu Keibitai'' 1962 *'' Big 1'' *'' Brave Dan'' *'' Chibikko Chocho'' *'' Kakero Tenba'' *''Osomatsu-kun'' *'' Ozora no Chikai'' *'' Tonga Series'' 1963 *'' Akuma no Oto'' *'' Bakansu Kozo'' *'' Chōjintachi'' *'' Ganbare Kenta'' *'' Holiday Run'' *'' Katame Sar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viz Media
Viz Media, LLC is an American entertainment company headquartered in San Francisco, California, focused on publishing manga, and distribution and licensing Japanese anime, films, and television series. The company was founded in 1986 as Viz, LLC. In 2005, Viz and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current Viz Media, which is owned by Japanese publishing conglomerates Shueisha and Shogakukan, as well as Japanese production company Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions (ShoPro). In 2017, Viz Media was the largest publisher of graphic novels in the United States in the bookstore market, with a 23% share of the market. History Founding Seiji Horibuchi, originally from Tokushima Prefecture in Shikoku, Japan, moved to California, United States in 1975. After living in the suburbs for almost two years, he moved to San Francisco, where he started a business exporting American cultural items to Japan, and became a writer of cultural information. He also became interested in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo Alien Bros
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by . It was serialized in Shogakukan's ''Monthly Big Comic Spirits'' from June 2015 to January 2017, with its chapters collected in three volumes. It was adapted into a 10-episode Japanese television drama which was broadcast on Nippon TV from July to September 2018. Media Manga Written and illustrated by , ''Tokyo Alien Bros.'' was serialized in Shogakukan's ''Monthly Big Comic Spirits'' from June 27, 2015, to January 27, 2017. Shogakukan collected its chapters in three volumes, released from February 12, 2016, to March 10, 2017. In May 2024, Viz Media announced that it licensed the series for English publication, with the first volume being released on January 21, 2025. Volumes Drama The manga was adapted into a 10-episode Japanese television drama which aired on Nippon TV from July 23 to September 24, 2018. Reception The manga was nominated for the Best Comic Award at the 45th Angoulême International Comics Fest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Comic Spirits
is a weekly Japanese ''seinen'' manga magazine published by Shogakukan. The first issue was published on October 14, 1980. Food, sports, romance and business are recurring themes in the magazine, and the stories often question conventional values. The magazine is published every Monday. Circulation in 2008 averaged over 300,000 copies, but by 2015 had dropped to 168,250. In 2009, Shogakukan launched a sister magazine, ''Monthly Big Comic Spirits''. History ''Big Comic Spirits'' launched on October 14, 1980, as a monthly magazine. The following June, it changed to a semimonthly magazine published on the 15th and 30th days of each month. Beginning in April 1986, the magazine became weekly, with new issues published every Monday. Currently running manga series Finished series 1980s * ' by Takashi Iwashige (1980–1985; moved from ''Big Comic'') * '' Maison Ikkoku'' by Rumiko Takahashi (1980–1987) * '' Wounded Man'' by Ryoichi Ikegami and Kazuo Koike (1982–1986) * '' My N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iyashikei Anime And Manga
is a genre specific to Japanese works, primarily manga and anime. It is a sub-genre of slice of life, portraying characters living out peaceful lives in calming environments, and is intended to have a healing effect on the audience. Shaenon K Garrity of ''Otaku USA'' wrote that in works, "the focus is less on character and plot, more on worldbuilding and creating an immersive visual setting". Origins originated in the late 1970s, but it emerged as a distinct subgenre in 1995, in the wake of the Great Hanshin earthquake and the Tokyo subway sarin attack. These traumatic events, combined with the economic recession, would lead to what scholar Paul Roquet calls the ''iyashi'' trend, or healing boom. The trauma suffered by the Japanese public provided "the emotional context for the emergence of calm as a lucrative and marketable feeling." Examples * ''Adachi and Shimamura'' * ''Aria (manga), Aria'' * ''Azumanga Daioh'' * ''Bartender (manga), Bartender'' * Boku no Natsuyasumi, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama Anime And Manga
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's '' Poetics'' ()—the earliest work of dramatic theory. The term "drama" comes from a Greek word meaning "deed" or " act" (Classical Greek: , ''drâma''), which is derived from "I do" (Classical Greek: , ''dráō''). The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional generic division between comedy and tragedy. In English (as was the analogous case in many other European languages), the word '' play'' or ''game'' (translating the Anglo-Saxon ''pleġan'' or Latin ''ludus'') was the standard term for dramas until William Shakespeare's time—just as its creator was a ''play-maker'' rather than a ''dramatist'' and the building was a ''play-house'' rather t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nora To Zassō
Nora, NORA, or Norah may refer to: * Nora (name), a feminine given name People with the surname * Arlind Nora (born 1980), Albanian footballer * Pierre Nora (1931–2025), French historian * Simon Nora (1921–2006), French politician Places Australia * Norah Head, headland on the Central Coast of New South Wales Canada * Mount Nora, a mountain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia Eritrea * Nora (island), island in the Dahlak Archipelago of Eritrea Italy * Nora, Italy, archaeological site in Sardinia Russia * Nora (river), a river in the Russian Far East Sweden * Nora, Sweden * Nora Municipality * Nora and Hjulsjö Mountain District, district of Västmanland Turkey * Nora (Cappadocia), a town of ancient Cappadocia, now in Turkey United States * Nora, Idaho, an unincorporated community * Nora, Illinois, village in Jo Daviess County * Nora, Indianapolis, Indiana, a neighborhood * Nora, Michigan, a former settlement * Nora, Nebraska, village in Nuckolls County * Nora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yama Wayama
is a pseudonymous Japanese manga artist. Born and raised in Okinawa, Wayama made her debut as a manga artist in 2015 while a student in the manga program at Tokyo Polytechnic University. After unsuccessful attempts to launch a serial manga series she began to produce (self-published manga) to critical acclaim. Her '' Captivated, by You'' became a critical and commercial success after being acquired and published by the publishing house Enterbrain, winning the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in the Short Work category and the New Face Award at the Japan Media Arts Festival Awards. Her other series include ''Let's Go Karaoke!'' and ''Onna no Sono no Hoshi''. Biography Early life and career Wayama was born in 1995 in Okinawa, where she was also raised. She attended Itoman Minami Elementary School for primary school, and Okinawa Shogaku High School for junior high and high school. In middle school she began drawing color pencil illustrations inspired by manga (girls manga) that she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiyō Matsumoto
is a Japanese manga artist. Active as a professional manga artist since the 1980s, he is known for his experimental style and genre-blending works such as '' Tekkonkinkreet'', ''Ping Pong'', and '' No. 5''. Influenced by Katsuhiro Otomo and French bande dessinée, his art combines psychological depth with rough, expressive lines. Matsumoto has won multiple awards, including the Eisner Award and Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. Career Matsumoto was born in Tokyo. Originally, he wanted to become a soccer player. but changed to artist as an occupation instead after reading Katsuhiro Otomo's ''Domu: A Child's Dream''. While studying literature at Wako University, he started drawing manga. He was an admirer of the manga artist Seiki Tsuchida and sent his work to the newcomer contest Comic Open of Kodansha's magazine ''Morning'' that Tsuchida was working for. After his initial success in the Comic Open contest, he did a self-financed tour of France in 1986, visiting the Paris-Dakar R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masakazu Ishiguro
is a Japanese manga artist. He debuted in 2000 with the one-shot ''Hero'' prior to launching ''And Yet the Town Moves'' in 2005, which won the Seiun Award for Best Comic and an Excellence Award at the Japan Media Arts Festival. In 2018, he launched ''Heavenly Delusion'', which topped the ''Kono Manga ga Sugoi!'' guidebook's list of the top manga for male readers. Biography Ishiguro was born in Fukui on September 8, 1977. Ishiguro was fond of Fujiko Fujio's works growing up, especially ''Doraemon''. When Ishiguro was in middle school, his dad rented '' Akira'' from a rental store and watched it with Ishiguro, who cites it as a major influence over his work. Ishiguro later said that growing up he felt that becoming a manga artist was "the only way to go". Ishiguro eventually graduated from Osaka University of Arts in 2001. Just prior to graduation, Ishiguro submitted the one-shot ''Hero'' to Kodansha's ''Monthly Afternoon'' magazine, which won the in 2000. Soon after, he left ''M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inio Asano
is a Japanese manga artist. Asano created the acclaimed manga series '' Solanin'', which was released as a feature film in Japan in April 2010, starring Aoi Miyazaki. He is also famous for the series '' Goodnight Punpun'' and '' Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction''. Known for creating character-driven, realist stories, ranging from slice of life to psychological horror, Asano won first prize in the 2001 GX competition for young manga artists. In 2010, ''Yomiuri Shimbun'' described Asano as "one of the voices of his generation." Works * (2000) * (2000) * (2001) * (2002 – 2004) **Licensed in North America by Viz Media. * (2003 – 2005) **Licensed in North America by Fantagraphics Books. * (2004 – 2005) * (2005 – 2008) * (2005 – 2006) **Licensed in North America by Viz Media. An additional epilogue chapter was included in a new edition published in Japan in October 2017. * (2007 – 2013) **Licensed in North America by Viz Media. * (2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
