Akio Chiba

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Akio Chiba ( Japanese ち ば あ き お , Chiba Akio ; born January 29, 1943 in Shenyang , Manchuria ; † September 13, 1984 ) was a Japanese manga artist .

Chiba was born in 1943 in Manchuria, which was then occupied by Japan. After the war ended, his family returned to Japan.

After working as an assistant for his older brother Tetsuya , who was already an established mangaka, he started his own career as a cartoonist in 1967. Its first publication was with Sabu to Chibi ( サ ブ と チ ビ ) in the Shōjo - Manga magazine Nakayoshi .

However, he became known in the 1970s with his sports manga for boys ( Shōnen ). His best-known work is the baseball series Captain ( キ ャ プ テ ン , Kyaputen ), which he brought out from 1972 to 1979 in the Gekkan Shōnen Jump . Captain also appeared in 26 anthologies that sold over 19 million copies in Japan, and was implemented as an anime television series in 1980 . Around the same time, from 1973 to 1978, Chiba also created the manga series Play Ball ( プ レ イ ボ ー ル , Pureibōru ) for the weekly, larger- circulation sister magazine of Gekkan Shōnen Jump , Shōnen Jump . This manga, which also appeared in 22 anthologies and deals with American football , was first filmed as an anime in 2005. For Play Ball and Captain Chiba won the Shogakukan Manga Prize in 1977 .

After Captain died in 1979, he didn't publish anything for a while. From 1982 he drew together with the scriptwriter Tarō Nami further mangas for Shōnen Jump , which, however, could not build on the success of Captain and Play Ball . In 1984 the draftsman committed suicide at the age of 41; his death is believed to have been related to bipolar disorder .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ イ ン ト ロ ダ ク シ ョ ン . In: 映 画 『キ ャ プ テ ン』 オ フ ィ シ ャ ル サ イ ト . Archived from the original on April 20, 2008 ; Retrieved February 20, 2014 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Chiba, Akio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES ち ば あ き お (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese manga artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Shenyang , Manchuria
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1984