Hisaya Nakajō

Hisaya Nakajō ( Japanese 中 条 比 紗 也 , Nakajō Hisaya ; born September 12, 1973 in Osaka Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist .

Life

Nakajō published her first manga in November 1994 with the short story Heart no Kajitsu (dt. About "The fruit of the heart") in the manga magazine Hana to Yume , which is aimed at young girls, so specializes in mangas of the Shōjo genre. For this magazine, for which Kaori Yuki and Marimo Ragawa were also working at the time, she created several other short mangas in the following time. Her first long project was Yume miru happa , which was published from April to May 1995 in 90 pages in Hana to Yume and later, together with a few short works by the author, as an anthology by Hakusensha Verlag. After the four individual chapters comprehensive Usotsuki na Taiyō , she began with the comic series Missing Piece consisting of seven chapters in two anthologies . This is about a high school student whose class, according to her classmates, has always been the boy she has never seen before. The protagonist is the only one who can't remember him.

The breakthrough came for the author with the manga series Hana-Kimi . It is about a young person who secretly goes to a boys' school in order to be closer to her crush. From September 1996 to August 2004, Nakajō drew the approximately 4,300 page comic for Hana to Yume magazine. Hana-Kimi's 23 anthologies , which have been translated into several languages, have sold over thirteen million copies in Japan alone. A fifteen-part television series based on the manga was created in Taiwan.

Since February 2005 the illustrator has published her manga Sugar Princess in Hana to Yume . In it she describes a girl with an apparently extraordinary talent in figure skating.

Works (selection)

• Heart no Kajitsu ( ハ ー ト の 果 実 , Hāto no Kajitsu ), 1994
• Futari no Hōsoku ( ふ た り の 法則 ), 1995
• 17 Romance ( 17 ロ マ ン ス , 17 Romansu ), 1995
• Yume miru happa ( 夢 み る 葉 っ ぱ ), 1995
• Usotsuki na Taiyō ( 嘘 つ き な 太陽 ), 1995
• Missing Piece ( ミ ッ シ ン グ ・ ピ ー ス , Misshingu Pīsu ), 1995–1996
• Hana-Kimi (花 ざ か り の 君 た ち へ , Hanazakari no Kimitachi e ), 1996-2004
• Sugar Princess ( シ ュ ガ ー プ リ ン セ ス , Shugā Purinsesu ), since 2005

Web links

• Wild Vanilla - Official Website (Japanese)
• Biography at Carlsen Comics
• List of her magazine publications (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ reporting livedoor news 22 May, 2007 ( Memento of 24 May 2007 at the Internet Archive )