Daisuke Igarashi

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Daisuke Igarashi ( Japanese 五十 嵐 大 介 , Igarashi Daisuke ; born April 2, 1969 in Saitama Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist .

biography

Igarashi graduated from Tama Art University. In the winter of 1993, he took part in the Shiki young talent competition of the manga magazine Afternoon and won it with his short story Ohayashi ga kikoeru hi , which then appeared in the February 1994 issue of Afternoon and was his first publication as a professional draftsman. More work for Afternoon followed .

His first long manga series was titled Hanashippanashi and appeared in the afternoon from July 1994 to August 1996. It consists of several independent stories that put all people in the foreground who encounter supernatural beings in their everyday life and are permanently influenced by them. The approximately 490 page comic series was published by the Kōdansha publishing house in three anthologies. Another anthology with some of his short stories that he has drawn for Afternoon was published in 2002 by Kōdansha under the title Soratobi tamashii .

From June 2003 to January 2005 another manga series from his pen, Majo (Eng. "Witch") appeared in the manga magazine Ikki . The manga also consists of some unrelated stories. In Majo he puts women with supernatural abilities, witches, in the foreground. The stories take place in different parts of the world, both in Austria and in Japan. For Majo , which was published in two anthologies by Shogakukan , Igarashi won the 2004 award for excellence at the eighth Japan Media Arts Festival , and the French translation was nominated for " best album " at the 2007 Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême .

From 2004 to 2005, Afternoon Igarashi's manga Little Forest was about stories about everyday life in rural areas of Japan. In 2006 he was nominated for the Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize for Little Forest .

He contributed a story to the volume Japan . Japan was published in 2006 as part of the La Nouvelle Manga movement of the French comic artist Frédéric Boilet in four languages ​​at the same time and contains works by seventeen Japanese and French comic artists.

Since February 2006 he has been drawing on another series for Ikki , Kaijū no Kodomo . It is about a girl who meets two boys who grew up in the sea with dugongs and who can stay under water for a longer than average. The manga was nominated for the Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize in 2008 and 2009.

style

His style is often compared to that of Hayao Miyazakis . Miyazaki's film, My Neighbor Totoro, is one of his greatest inspirations.

Igarashi mainly deals with ecological issues, which he combines with supernatural elements. Igarashi traces his fascination for nature and the will to express it in his works back to his childhood, when he often played next to an old temple near trees that are hundreds of years old. “When I played in the midst of these trees every day, I was overwhelmed by their beauty, and I wanted to try to put a little of that beauty on paper. That's how I started. "

Igarashi's work has been translated into Chinese, French, Italian and Spanish. The manga artist Yuki Urushibara , known for Mushishi , was influenced by him.

Works

  • Ohayashi ga kikoeru hi ( お 囃 子 が 聞 こ え る 日 ), 1994
  • Hanashippanashi ( は な し っ ぱ な し ), 1994–1996
  • Soratobi tamashii ( そ ら ト び タ マ シ イ ), 1998
  • Kuma koroshi shin nusumi Tarō no namida ( 熊 殺 し 神 盗 み 太郎 の 涙 ), 1999
  • Sunakake ( す な か け ), 2000
  • Le Pain et le Chat , 2002
  • Majo (魔女 ), 2003-2005
  • Little Forest ( リ ト ル ・ フ ォ レ ス ト , Ritoru Foresuto ), 2004–2005. ( Filmed in 2018 )
  • Kaijū no Kodomo (海 獣 の 子 供 ), since 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Evene.fr
  2. Here's a conversation between Igarashi Daisuke and Taiyou Matsumoto which ran in Brutus magazine a while back. - 17th FEB 2013 | 351 NOTES ( Memento of the original dated August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mangahakuran.tumblr.com
  3. Japan Media Arts Festival. Retrieved July 22, 2014 .
  4. Interview with du9