Atsushi Kamijō
Atsushi Kamijō ( Japanese 上 條 淳 士 , Kamijō Atsushi ; born March 12, 1963 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese manga artist .
Life
He published his first comic in 1983 with the short story Mob Hunter ( モ ッ ブ ★ ハ ン タ ー , Mobbu Hantā ) in a special edition of the manga magazine Shōnen Sunday . This was followed by more short stories and, together with the scenario artist Tetsu Kariya, the approximately 500-page series Zingy for this magazine.
Kamijō's breakthrough came in 1985 in Shōnen Sunday with the series To-Y about the rebellious lead singer of a punk rock band and the rise of the same. This topic, which was unusual for a weekly Shōnen manga magazine, and Kamijō's drawing style received attention and the manga exerted a great influence on the Japanese subculture. The manga, which was also implemented as a film in the form of an original video animation , ended in 1987 with a volume of around 1,800 pages, which the Shogakukan- Verlag also summarized in ten edited volumes.
After the completion of To-Y , the illustrator was only active in his field, so he concentrated on comics for an adult readership. From 1988 to 1992 the 1,400-page manga Sex was created for Young Sunday magazine . This is about a high school student who meets a punk while traveling to Okinawa . Furthermore, Aka × Kuro ( 赤 × 黒 ) appeared in 1995 on boxing in Young Sunday and, from 2001 to 2005, the series Eight ( エ イ ト , Eito ) about the mysterious disappearance of a skateboarder and the subsequent appearance of a boy who looks very much like him, in Big Comic Spirits .
His work has been translated into French, Spanish, Korean and German.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Masanao Amano: Manga Design . P. 180.
- ↑ Masanao Amano: Manga Design . P. 182.
- ↑ - 作品 紹 介 −SEX 上 條 淳 士 . In: ヤ ン サ ン WEB. Archived from the original on July 19, 2009 ; Retrieved February 20, 2014 (Japanese).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kamijō, Atsushi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 上 條 淳 士 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese manga artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo Prefecture , Japan |