(born 1977) is a Japanese manga artist from Nagano, Japan. In 2002, he won the gold prize in the tenth round of the illustration division of the

Dengeki Novel Prize The is a Japanese literary award handed out annually (since 1994) by the Japanese publisher ASCII Media Works (formerly MediaWorks) for their Dengeki Bunko light novel imprint. The contest has discovered many popular and successful light noveli ...

under the name . In 2006, he debuted publicly as the artist for the ''

Toshokan Sensō is a Japanese light novel series by Hiro Arikawa, with illustrations by Sukumo Adabana. There are four novels in the series, though only the first novel is called ''Toshokan Sensō''; the subsequent novels are named ''Toshokan Nairan' ...

'' series of

light novel A is a type of Genre fiction, popular literature novel from Japan usually classified as young adult fiction, generally targeting Adolescence, teens to Young adult, twenties or older. The definition is very vague, and wide-ranging. The abbr ...

s written by

Hiro Arikawa is a female Japanese light novelist from Kōchi, Japan. Biography Arikawa was born on June 9, 1972, in Kochi City, Kochi Prefecture, Japan. She won the tenth annual Dengeki Novel Prize for new writers for ''Shio no Machi: Wish on My Precious' ...

. Adabana has worked closely with Arikawa since then, illustrating her novels '' Kujira no Kare'' and ''

Hankyū Densha is a 2011 Japanese film. It is based on the novel ''Hankyū Densha'' by Hiro Arikawa and directed by Yoshishige Miyake. It was released in cinemas in the Kansai region of Japan on April 23, 2011, and then in other regions of the country from Apr ...

'' as well.

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Japanese illustrators People from Nagano Prefecture 1977 births Living people {{japan-artist-stub