Fumiyo Kono

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Fumiyo Kōno, 2018

Fumiyo Kōno ( Japanese こ う の 史 代 Kōno Fuyumi ; born September 28, 1968 in Hiroshima , Hiroshima Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist . She also works as an illustrator of children's books and creates amateur comics ( dōjinshi ).

biography

Kōno, who grew up in the Nishi District of Hiroshima City in 1968 , began drawing comics in middle school. After dropping out of the Hiroshima University Science Faculty , she went to Tokyo , where she works as an assistant for manga artists, for Katsuyuki Toda , Aki Morino and Fumiko Tanikawa .

Kōno published her first own work as a professional draftsman in 1995 with the manga series Machikado Hanadayori , on which she initially worked until 1996 for a sister magazine of Manga Action . From 2002 to 2003 she continued to draw for the manga magazine Manga Town Original to Machikado Hanadayori . In March 2007, the Futabasha publishing house, for which she mainly works, published Machikado Hanadayori in book form. From 1997 to 2004 she created the Yonkoma series Pippira Nōto for Manga Town .

After a few more works, the breakthrough came for the illustrator in 2004 with the book publication of Yūnagi no Machi, Sakura no Kuni at Futabasha. The two short stories that make up Yūnagi no Machi, Sakura no Kuni , were previously published in Manga Action in 2003 and 2004 , and only deal with the loosely linked fates of two women from Hiroshima. The first takes place in 1955 and shows a woman who survived the atomic bombing in 1945 and who still feels the consequences. She finally succumbs to her injuries, believed to be harmless, from back then after falling in love. The second, longer short story shows a young person in 1987 and again how the atom bomb changed people's lives and thinking.

Yūnagi no machi, Sakura no kuni became a bestseller in Japan with sales of 180,000. The manga won the Big Manga Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival 2004 and received the Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize as a Newcomer Prize in 2005 . The manga was also nominated in the main category for the Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize. Yūnagi no Machi, Sakura no Kuni has been translated into English and French. In 2007, a film adaptation of the comic appeared under the direction of Kiyoshi Sasabes with Rena Tanaka and Kumiko Asō in the leading roles.

From 2004 to 2006 in Manga Action and then in two anthologies, her about 260 page manga series San san roku was published. From 2007 to 2009, Fumiyo Kōno worked for the same magazine on Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni , which was nominated for the Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize in 2010 and was filmed as In this Corner of the World in 2016 .

Works

  • Machikado Hanadayori ( 街角 花 だ よ り ), 1995–1996, 2002–2003
  • Pippira Nōto ( ぴ っ ぴ ら 帳 ), 1997-2004
  • Kokkosan ( こ っ こ さ ん ), 1999–2001
  • Nagai Michi ( 長 い 道 ), 2001-2004
  • Kappa no Neneko ( か っ ぱ の ね ね 子 ), 2001–2002
  • Yūnagi no Machi, Sakura no Kuni (夕 凪 の 街 桜 の 国 ), 2003-2004
  • San san roku ( さ ん さ ん 録 ), 2004–2006
  • Kono Sekai no Katasumi ni (こ の 世界 の 片 隅 に ), 2007–2009
  • Heibon Kurabu ( 平凡 倶 楽 部 ), 2009–2010
  • Boorupen Kojiki ( ぼ お る ぺ ん 古 事 記 ), 2011–2012
  • Ano Toki, Kono Hon ( あ の と き 、 こ の 本 )
  • Hi no Tori ( 日 の 鳥 ), 2012–2016

Web links

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  1. ↑ Last Gasp website for the English version of Yūnagi no Machi, sakura no Kuni ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on April 2, 2007)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lastgasp.com
personal data
SURNAME Kono, Fumiyo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES こ う の 史 代 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese manga artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Hiroshima , Japan