Hiromu Arakawa

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Hiromu Arakawa ( Japanese 荒 川 弘 , Arakawa Hiromu ; actually 荒 川 弘 美 , Arakawa Hiromi ; born May 8, 1973 in Hokkaidō , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist , best known for her Fullmetal Alchemist .

biography

Arakawa grew up on a farm. She worked as an assistant at Hiroyuki Etō before starting her career as a professional illustrator in 1999 with the short story Stray Dog , for which she received an award from the manga magazine Shōnen Gangan . For this magazine, which is published by Square Enix , Arakawa, who portrays herself as a cow and has a penchant for trash films, drew a few other short works.

In 2001 she started working on her first longer manga, Fullmetal Alchemist . In it she tells of two brothers who are looking for the philosopher's stone . While trying to resuscitate their late mother using alchemy , one brother lost an arm and a leg and the other his entire body. Fullmetal Alchemist became a huge success in Japan. From 2003 to 2004, a very popular anime television series comprising 51 episodes was created based on the manga, which was followed by a movie in 2005. After the first series was very different from the manga, a new TV series with 64 episodes was created from 2009 to 2010, which is more oriented towards the manga. The manga, which has been translated into German, English, French and Polish, among others, was completed in June 2010 and comprises over 5,000 pages in 27 anthologies.

For Fullmetal Alchemist , the illustrator won the Shogakukan Manga Prize in the Shōnen category in 2004 and the Seiun Prize in the Best Comic category in 2011 . She was nominated twice, in 2004 and 2011, for the Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize, and in 2011 she won the Young Artist Prize.

Arakawa drew a few more mangas during the release of Fullmetal Alchemist . Her short story Raiden-18 was published in 2005 by Shogakukan in the Sunday Gene-X manga magazine and was her first work that was not published by Square Enix. She was an illustrator and part of the Huang Jin Zhou group of authors of the Manga Hero Tales , which appeared on Square Enix between 2006 and 2010 and was also implemented as an anime television series.

In April 2011 her new manga series Gin no Saji: Silver Spoon started in Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine . For Gin no Saji Hiromu Arakawa was awarded the 58th Shōgakukan Manga Prize in the Shōnen category and the 5th Manga Taishō in 2012. The series aired as an anime in 2013/2014.

Works

  • Stray Dog (1999)
  • Totsugeki Tonari no Enikkusu ( 突 撃 と な り の エ ニ ッ ク ス , 2000)
  • Shanghai Yōmakikai ( 上海 妖魔鬼怪 , 2000)
  • Fullmetal Alchemist (鋼 の 錬 金 術 師 , Hagane no Renkinjutsushi , 2001–2010)
  • Raiden-18 (2005)
  • Sōten no Kōmori ( 蒼天 の 蝙蝠 , 2006)
  • Hero Tales (獣 神 演武 , Jūshin Enbu , 2006–2010)
  • Gin no Saji: Silver Spoon (銀 の 匙 Silver Spoon, 2011–)
  • The Heroic Legend of Arslan (ア ル ス ラ ー ン 戦 記 , Arusurān Senki , 2013–)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Silver Spoon, I Am a Hero Win Shogakukan Manga Awards ( en ) January 24, 2013. Retrieved April 9, 2013.
  2. ↑ マ ン ガ 大 賞 2012 は 荒 川 弘 の 新 境地 「銀 の 匙」 ( yes ) March 23, 2013. Accessed April 9, 2013.
  3. ↑ Silver Spoon TV Anime Slated for Summer ( en ) April 9, 2013. Accessed April 9, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Arakawa, Hiromu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 荒 川 弘 (Japanese); 荒 川 弘 美 (Japanese, real name); Arakawa Hiromi (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese manga artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Hokkaidō , Japan