is a Japanese

manga artist A is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. As of 2006, about 3,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan. Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist be ...

. She is best known for her series '' Forest of Piano'', which has been adapted as an

anime is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of ...

film and received the Grand Prize for manga at the 2008

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. She won the 1994

Kodansha Manga Award is an annual award for serialized manga Manga ( Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in ea ...

for general manga for ''

Hanada Shōnen-shi Hanada (written: lit. "flower field") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese screenwriter *, Japanese literary critic and writer *, Japanese Nordic combined skier *, Japanese Paralympic ...

'', which has also been adapted as both an anime television series and a live-action film. From November 2021 to August 2022, Isshiki worked with

Takashi Nagasaki is a Japanese author, manga writer and former editor of manga. He started his professional career at Shogakukan in 1980 and worked as an editor on the publisher's various manga magazines, including as editor-in-chief of '' Big Comic Spirits'' ...

on ''Child from the Dark'', based on Nagasaki's novel ''Yomi Nemuru Mori -Daigo Shinji no Hakuran Suiri File-''. Isshiki was credited as during the manga's serialization in ''

Big Comic is a semimonthly ''seinen'' manga magazine published since 18 February 1968 by Shogakukan in Japan. It was originally launched as a monthly magazine, but switched to twice monthly on the 10th and 25th beginning in April 1968. It is paired with ...

'', but is credited by her real name in its ''

tankōbon is the Japanese term for a book that is not part of an anthology or corpus. In modern Japanese, the term is most often used in reference to individual volumes of a manga series: most series first appear as individual chapters in a weekly or m ...

''.

Selected works

* ''Denaoshitoide!'' - ''

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 va ...

'', 1988–95, 6 volumes * ''

'' ("The Chronicles of Young Hanada") - ''Mr. Magazine'', 1993–95, 4 + 1 volumes * ''Hassuru'' - ''Big Comic Spirits'', 1996–97, 6 volumes * ''Gyojin-Sou kara Ai wo Komete'' ("With Love from Gyojin Inn") - ''Shōnen Jump Deluxe'', 1998, 1 volume * '' Forest of Piano'' ("Piano Forest") - ''

Young Magazine Uppers was a semimonthly seinen manga magazine, published in Japan from April 1, 1998, until October 19, 2004, by Kodansha. List of serialized manga * ''Piano no Mori'' by Makoto Isshiki (1998-2004), (moved to Weekly Morning after the cancellation o ...

'', ''

Weekly Morning is a weekly Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Kodansha. It debuted in 1982 as . The digital edition of the magazine is titled . In 2006 a spin-off magazine called was launched (formerly bimonthly), featuring stories like ''Saint '' ...

'', 1998–2015, 26 volumes * - Written by

, ''

'', 2021–2022, 2 volumes

References

External links

Makoto Isshiki's website
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