is a Japanese

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from

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, Japan. He is best known as the creator of '' Lucky Star'', which began serialization in

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's ''

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'' magazine in December 2003. He is also credited for creating ''Comptiq's'' mascot character . Yoshimizu also works under the

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Biography

Yoshimizu was born on 1977 in

, Japan. He attended Kasukabe Kyōei High School, a private academy in the city of Kasukabe, where he graduated as part of the 14th graduating class. From the time he was in junior high school, Yoshimizu enjoyed drawing, and in high school he began drawing manga featuring his classmates. While a member of the animation club in high school, he began seriously drawing manga and doing illustration work. After graduating from high school, he began attending a technical school and working as a

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and working toward becoming a

Manga art

Around that time, Yoshimizu met Gō Katō, who later became an editor—and then editor-in-chief—at ''

''. Katō appears in the '' Lucky Star'' manga series as the rabbit "Editor K". After that, Yoshimizu got commission work to do spot illustrations and stories in anthology comic releases, in addition to doing original manga stories to fill out empty spots in the magazine when manga series completed. One of the original series he created was '' Lucky Star'', which became popular and was subsequently picked up as a regular series. The series had been on hiatus since 2014. On September 2, 2022, it was announced that Lucky Star would make a return. It began again on November 10, 2022. As of 2023, it runs in ''Comptiq''.

Works

Original illustration

* (Penguin Works, Windows 95/98, as Tsukasa Suina) * (Frau) *'' Lucky Star: Ryōō Gakuen Ōtōsai'' (

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, original design, general supervision, main character paste-up images)

Manga

* (in ''Bessatsu Comic Comp'', not yet collected in

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format) *'' Lucky Star'' (in ''

'', Kadokawa Shoten) **Two series-within-a-series have also been published: *** (in ''

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'') *** (in ''Comptiq'') *''

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'' (''Comic A la Carte'', one volume,

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comic anthology) * (Character design, illustration and commercial four-panel comic strip, etc...) * (in ''Comptiq'')

Novel illustration

* (as Tsukasa Suina, written by Izumi Morino, March 2003, ) * (written by Tōka Takei, August 2007, ) * (written by Tōka Takei, March 2008, ) * (written by Tōka Takei, October 2008, ) * (written by

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, April 2009, ) * (created by

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, with illustrations by Toshihiko Tsukiji, Shōtarō Mizuki, Teru Arai, and Takafumi Nanatsuki, August 2009, ) * (cover illustration, by

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, Kadokawa Shoten, 2011) * (written by Heisei Izu and Kei Tanaka, February 2012, )

Anime

* ''

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'' (Original character design)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Yoshimizu, Kagami 1977 births Japanese illustrators Living people Manga artists from Saitama Prefecture Satte, Saitama