Fumiko Takano

Fumiko Takano ( Japanese 高 野 文 子 , Takano Fumiko ; born November 12, 1957 in Niitsu , Niigata Prefecture ) is a Japanese manga artist .

biography

As a high school student, influenced by the Mangaka Moto Hagio , she took part with a 16-page story in a competition run by the Bessatsu Shōjo comic magazine. Her first publication was in 1977 with Hana in a Dōjinshi anthology of the amateur circle Rakugakikan . Because one of the members of this circle was one of the founders of the manga magazine June , Takano had the opportunity in 1979 to publish her first comic as a professional illustrator in this magazine. This was called Zettai anzen kamisori ( 絶 対 安全 剃刀 ).

In the following years, Takano received a large fan base despite comparatively fewer publications. Without specializing in gender-specific target groups like most of the manga artists working at the time, Takano became a pioneer for the following female avant-garde artists such as Kyōko Okazaki , Shungiku Uchida and Erica Sakurazawa .

Takano has only published six edited volumes since 1982. Most of her work consists of short stories that appeared in magazines such as Mankinchō ( 漫 金 超 ), Petit Flower , Seventeen and June in the 1980s . For her first anthology, Zettai anzen kamisori , which was published by Hakusensha Verlag in 1982 and contains 17 short stories, she won the prize of the Association of Japanese Cartoonists . From 1986 to 1987 with Rakki-jōchan no atarashii shigoto ( ラ ッ キ ー 嬢 ち ゃ ん の あ た ら し い 仕事 ) in Petit Flower and from 1988 to 1992 with Ruki-san ( る き さ ん ) in Hanako , she also tried longer works.

In the alternative manga magazines Comic Are! and Comic Cue as well as in his magazine Afternoon she brought out the four comics between 1996 and 2001, which were collected in 2002 as Kiiroi hon ( 黄色 い 本 ) in the Kōdansha publishing house. This work earned her the 2003 Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize . Kiiroi hon has been translated into French; an excerpt was published in German in Strapazin magazine.

literature

• Jaqueline Berndt : Takano Fumiko . In: Strapazin , Issue 81, 4/2005

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Masanao Amano: Manga Design . P. 298.