Gosho Aoyama

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Gosho Aoyama (center) with two fans at the Erlangen Comic Salon (June 2006)

Gosho Aoyama ( Japanese 青山 剛 昌 , Aoyama Gōshō , born June 21, 1963 in Daiei (today: Hokuei ), Tottori Prefecture ) is a Japanese manga artist .

His first manga with the title Chotto Mattete ( ち ょ と ま っ て て ) he published in 1986. His most important works include Yaiba , Kaito Kid and Detective Conan . The last-mentioned series in particular, with meanwhile almost 100 manga volumes, over 900 anime episodes and 23 movies, brought Aoyama great international fame and economic success. B. in 2000 ranked third among the highest earning Japanese private individuals and in 2001 ranked sixth, in 2004 he was next to Rumiko Takahashi the highest earning mangaka.

For Yaiba he received the 38th Shogakukan Manga Prize in the category "children" in 1993 and for Detective Conan 2001 the 46th Shogakukan Manga Prize in the Shōnen category .

In addition to drawing manga, Gosho Aoyama also practices kendo and baseball . He often visits the Hanshin Kōshien Stadium with the mangaka Mitsuru Adachi . In addition, he is not only a football fan, but also a big crime fanatic, especially Sherlock Holmes novels, whose characters and motifs he often incorporates into the plot of Detective Conan .

On May 5, 2005 he married Minami Takayama , singer of the Japanese pop group Two-Mix and anime voice actress who, among other things, dubbed the main character Conan Edogawa in the anime to Detective Conan and, as part of Two-Mix, also made a guest appearance in the anime Has. On December 10th, 2007, Japanese newspapers reported that they had divorced.

In June 2006, attended Aoyama at the invitation of Egmont Manga and anime the Comic Salon Erlangen .

Works

  • Chotto Mattete (1986)
  • Kaito Kid (since 1988)
  • Yaiba (1989)
  • 3rd Base 4th (1993)
  • Aoyama Gōshō Tanpenshū (1994 and 2011, short story book)
  • Detective Conan (since 1994)
  • Tell Me A Lie (2007)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aoyama, Gosho: Detektiv Conan Volume 91, Egmont Verlag, 2017, p. 1
  2. ^ Conan and Kiki Married. In: Anime News Network . June 2, 2005, accessed May 26, 2008 .
  3. ^ Conan's Voice Actress, Conan's Manga Creator Divorce (Updated). In: Anime News Network. December 12, 2007, accessed May 26, 2008 .
  4. ↑ Gosho Aoyama Short Stories. In: ConanWiki.org. July 1, 2015, accessed on July 19, 2015 (German).

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personal data
SURNAME Aoyama, Gosho
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aoyama, Gōshō; 青山 剛 昌 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese mangaka
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Daiei , now Hokuei , Tottori Prefecture