Hideji Oda
Hideji Oda ( Japanese 小田 ひ で 次 , Oda Hideji ; * 1962 in Hachimantai , Iwate Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist .
biography
After studying for three years at a design school, Hideji Oda sent his work to the manga magazine Afternoon in 1991 and then won the Shiki Prize , the magazine 's award for young talent. In 1992 he published his first work as a professional draftsman, the first chapter of the Kakusan series (translated "Diffusion"), in Afternoon . The Kōdansha publishing house later brought out the chapters first published in Afternoon in two books. The young protagonist in Kakusan dissolves into nothingness and travels invisibly through the world in search of the cause of the dissolution. Because of the extremely detailed drawings, the series did not appear in the magazine every month, as usual, but only once or twice a year and did not end until 1998. Oda also had a job as a masseur in addition to working on Kakusan .
From 2000 to 2001 his second manga series Coo no Sekai (" Coo's World") appeared in Afternoon , in contrast to Kakusan monthly. In it, Oda describes in 430 pages a girl who in her dreams meets her dead brother again, who is known there by a different name and does not seem to know his sister. After a while, the girl can no longer distinguish between dream and reality. In 2004 Akita-Shoten- Verlag published a spin-off for Coo no Sekai , Miyori no Mori , about a girl who dreams of entering a forest and meeting ghosts there. Oda is currently working on a sequel to Miyori no Mori for Mystery Bonita magazine . The animator Nizo Yamamoto will soon be filming the fantasy manga as an anime television series.
His work is also relocated to Belgium, Great Britain, Italy, Taiwan and Spain. At the end of 2005 his book Yume no Kūchi was published as part of the La Nouvelle Manga movement in six languages simultaneously.
Works
- Kakusan ( 拡 散 ), 1992-1998
- Coo no Sekai ( ク ー の 世界 , Kū no Sekai ), 2000–2001
- Kinpira ( き ん ぴ ら ), 2003
- Miyori no Mori ( ミ ヨ リ の 森 ), since 2004
- Yume no Kūchi ( 夢 の 空地 ), 2005
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
- Profile at lambiek.net (English)
- Biography from Casterman (French, accessed October 22, 2013)
- Profile of Hideji Oda on anisearch.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Biography at Casterman ( Memento from October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Miyori no Mori Anime Announced , Anime News Network, April 16, 2007
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oda, Hideji |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 小田 ひ で 次 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese manga artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hachimantai , Iwate Prefecture, Japan |