is a Japanese

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, best known for his series ''

School Rumble is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Jin Kobayashi. It was serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga, manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' from October 2002 to July 2008, with its chapters collected in 22 volumes. ...

''.

Overview

Kobayashi began drawing manga seriously during his university years, and won an honorable mention at the ''

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''s Rookie Award in 2000, allowing him to serialize ''

''. He stated to an audience at

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's 2006

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convention that he started writing the series because he found the idea of a manga involving a delinquent falling in love interesting. His favorite character, Kenji Harima, is based largely on an amalgam of various friends, although he estimates "about 30%" of Harima is a reflection of himself. However, despite putting most of his personal feelings into the female characters, he stated that Ryuhei Suga, a minor supporting character, is the most autobiographical. Most of the other characters are based on memories of former high-school classmates; Kobayashi recalled that he had no real idea of their voices when drawing them, and it was not until much later, when he heard the

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' interpretations during the production of the anime series, that he knew how they should sound. He acknowledged that some characters are more developed than others; in reply to a fan question about the mysterious Akira Takano, he admitted that, despite the closeness he feels for her, he did not put much emphasis on Takano and planned to develop her love-life slowly. Kobayashi intentionally centered his story arcs around misunderstandings which he then resolves, since he believes "if there's no misunderstanding then there's no funny story." He claims that none of his stories are based on real-life events, although when pressed admits the possibility of some resemblances but without divulging specific details. He has made some

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s in the anime adaptation ''School Rumble'', supplying the voice of Sailor F in two episodes of the first season, and being the narrator of the prehistoric segment in the first

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, ''School Rumble - First Term Extra''. After completing ''School Rumble'', he said "School Rumble is an important piece that I want to draw more, but I wanted to do more other things so I ended it. When I have some time, I would like to draw their adult days in a ''seinen'' magazine."

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Visual Novel

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kobayashi, Jin Manga artists from Chiba Prefecture 1977 births People from Chiba Prefecture Living people Keio University alumni