Hinako Takanaga

Hinako Takanaga ( Japanese 高 永 ひ な こ , Takanaga Hinako ; * September 16, 19xx) is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator. Her works focus on homosexual relationships between men, so they are Shōnen-Ai - or Yaoi- Manga. The main characters in her stories, often comedies, which are primarily aimed at a female audience, are bishons .

biography

Takanaga started drawing when he was ten. After working for a mail order company for some time and attending a drawing school, she started her career as a cartoonist. She took part in a competition of the Hakusensha publishing house and won a newcomer award. In the following time she worked exclusively for this publisher and published her first work as a professional illustrator in 1996 with the first episode of the manga series Küss mich, Student! .

Since the termination of the manga magazine Hanamaru Manga in 1999, in which Takanaga published her works at Hakusensha, she has been drawing for several publishers at the same time. Kiss me student was initially discontinued because of the problems with Hakusensha and only ended in 2004 after about 730 pages. The final volume appeared shortly after the completion of the 450-page three-volume manga Little Butterfly , which appeared in the Manga magazine Gush at Kaiōsha from 2001 and deals with the love story of a quiet fifteen-year-old with a popular classmate. While Little Butterfly takes on a more serious tone, Kiss Me, Student! comedic. In it, a naive student and an employee fall in love, whose happiness is disturbed by the student's choleric older brother, who has a fatal homophobia, until he finally falls in love with a colleague at his university.

Since 2004, some of the author's works have been reissued by Kaiōsha. However, she also worked for Biblos , Gentōsha and Kadokawa Shoten, among others . Takanaga is currently writing Tyrann in Love and other manga for magazines such as Gush and Asuka Ciel .

From August 2005, Tokyopop published Kleiner Schmetterling in German. Since the manga turned out to be successful, the publisher also published Küss mich, Student! , Tyrant in love , In love with Osaka , Sketches of Love and Dream Boyz as well as novels for which Takanaga made the cover illustrations. The publisher brought the illustrator to the Leipzig Book Fair in Germany in 2007 .

Works (selection)

• Kiss me student (合格 祈願 , Gōkaku Kigan →チ ャ レ ン ジ ャ ー ズ , Charenjāzu for Challengers ), 1996–2004 (4 volumes)
• Little Butterfly (リ ト ル ・ バ タ フ ラ イ , Ritoru Batafurai for Little Butterfly ), 2001-2004 (3 volumes)
• Sketches of Love ( Croquis ), 2001–2002 (Oneshot)
• Benkyō shinasai! ( 勉強 し な さ い! ), 2002
• KO with happiness , 2009 (Love Round !!), 2003 (Oneshot)
• Traumboyz ( デ キ る 男 が 好 き な ん だ! , Dekiru Otoko ga Suki Nanda! ), 2003 (Oneshot)
• In love with Osaka (リ バ テ ィ ☆ リ バ テ ィ! , Ribati Ribati! For Liberty Liberty! ), 2003-2004 (Oneshot)
• Oboresō na Shōdō ( 溺 れ そ う な 衝動 ), 2004
• Tyrant in love (恋 す る 暴君 , Koisuru Bōkun ), since 2005 (11 volumes)
• Targeted Seduction ( き み が 恋 に 堕 ち る , Kimi ga Koi ni Ochiru ), 2005–2006 (Oneshot)
• Without many words (不 器用 な サ イ レ ン ト , Bukiyō na Silent ), 2006–2015 (5 volumes)
• The Devil's Secret ( ア ク マ の ひ み つ , Akuma no Himitsu ), 2007 (Oneshot)
• Targeted Desire ( き み が 恋 に 溺 れ る , Kimi ga Koi ni Oboreru ), 2008 (3 volumes)
• Point of Reversal 2010 (タ ー ニ ン グ ポ イ ン ト) , 2009 (Oneshot)
• my king ( light novel )
• Operation Love 2008 (Light Novel)
• Tied Up In Love (Light Novel)

Hinako Takanaga also published the art book Little Butterflies & More , which was published in German in June 2014.

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Interview with Hinako Takanaga at Pummeldex.de