Hinako Ashihara
Hinako Ashihara ( Japanese 芦 原 妃 名子 , Ashihara Hinako ; born January 25, 19xx in Hyōgo Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist . Her comics are aimed primarily at young girls, so they belong to the Shōjo genre.
In 1994 she brought out her first publication with the short story Sono hanashi okotowari shimasu ( そ の 話 お こ と わ り し ま す ) in the manga magazine Betsucomi . For this magazine, other short stories followed, which were summarized in the three-volume Girls Lesson collection between 1995 and 1996 , as well as several series, including the ballet manga Tenshi no Kisu ( 天使 の キ ス , 1997–1998).
Her greatest success to date was with the series Sunadokei - The Hourglass ( 砂 時 計 , Sunadokei ) about a girl from Tokyo who moved to the country with her mother at the age of twelve because her parents divorced. The approximately 1,800-page manga was published as a sequel in the Betsucomi from 2003 to 2006 and then summarized in ten anthologies, which sold over 5.7 million times. The comic was implemented as a television series and brought the illustrator the Shogakukan Manga Prize in 2005 .
Ashihara's work has been translated into German, English, Chinese, Korean, Italian, Spanish and French.
Web links
- Profile at Betsucomi (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Report on a film adaptation of Sunadokei ( memento from October 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at Yomiuri Shimbun (Japanese)
- ↑ http://iebook.co.kr/index.html?menu=view&uid=2866 (Korean)
- ↑ Sunadokei at Panini Italy (Italian)
- ↑ Sunadokei at Planeta Comic (Spanish)
- ↑ Hinako Ashihara at Manga-News.com (French)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ashihara, Hinako |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 芦 原 妃 名子 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese manga artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25th 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hyogo Prefecture , Japan |