Chika Umino
Chika Umino ( Japanese 羽 海 野 チ カ , Umino Chika ; born August 30, 19xx in Tokyo Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist .
After working as a designer and illustrator, she published her first comic as a professional illustrator in the manga magazine Cutie Comic in 2000 . This debut work was the first episode of her manga series Honey and Clover , which is about the love and everyday life of five art students who are friends. The comic series switched from CUTiE Comic to the higher-circulation Young You in 2001 and, after the latter was discontinued, to the Chorus , in which it was completed in 2006.
Honey and Clover became a breakthrough for Umino. She won the Kōdansha Manga Prize for the approximately 1700-page manga in 2003 and was nominated for the Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize in 2004. The ten book publications, which have also been translated into several languages, sold over eight million copies in Japan. This was followed by film adaptations as anime and as real film.
Since July 2007, the bi-weekly magazine Young Animal has been running her new romantic series 3-gatsu no Lion about Shogi players. While the magazines in which Honey and Clover was published were primarily aimed at a female readership, Young Animal is designed for adult men. In 2011 she was awarded the Kōdansha Manga Prize in the general category for this series together with Chūya Koyama for Uchū Kyōdai and was nominated for the Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize in 2012 .
Works
- Honey and Clover (ハ チ ミ ツ と ク ロ ー バ ー , Hachimitsu to Kurōbā ), 2000–2006
- 3-gatsu no Lion ( 3 月 の ラ イ オ ン , 3-gatsu no Raion ), since 2007
Web links
- Umino's website (Japanese)
- Interview with Chika Umino at Yahoo Japan (Japanese)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Umino, Chika |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 羽 海 野 チ カ (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese manga artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 30th 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo Prefecture , Japan |