Hitoshi Ashinano

Hitoshi Ashinano ( Japanese 芦 奈 野 ひ と し , Ashinano Hitoshi ; born April 25, 1963 in Yokosuka , Kanagawa , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist .

In the early 1990s he was involved in the making of anime , but after a while he stopped doing it and started drawing manga . He temporarily assisted Kōsuke Fujishima . While out for a walk he got the idea for his first work, a twenty-page short story entitled Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō , which he submitted to the manga magazine Afternoon , in which Kosuke Fujishima's Oh! My Goddess appeared. In it he talks about the robot woman Alpha , who runs a small café on the Miura Peninsula , Ashinano's home. After the short story had won the Afternoon Shiki Prize and was published in Afternoon in April 1994, he decided to expand the short work into a regular series and continued to draw Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō until April 2006 , which only ended after over 2,000 pages , also appeared in other Asian countries, won the Seiun Prize and was implemented as an anime. In 2003, Kodansha- Verlag published the art book Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō - Ashinano Hitoshi Gashū ( ヨ コ ハ マ 買 い 出 し 紀行 ・ 芦 奈 野 ひ と し 画集 ), which contains over 100 illustrations by the illustrator of Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō .

His only other official manga series is PositioN , which first appeared in 1999 in Afternoon Season Zōkan , a special edition of Afternoon , and has since then appeared irregularly in Afternoon Season Zōkan and, after its discontinuation, in Bessatsu Morning , a side magazine of Morning . Seven chapters have been published so far.

Hitoshi Ashinano dōjinshis under the name Sūke , including parodies of Kosuke Fujishima's You're Under Arrest! .

Works

• Kabu no Isaki ( カ ブ の イ サ キ ), 2007–2013
• Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō (ヨ コ ハ マ 買 い 出 し 紀行 ), 1994-2006
• Position , since 1999

Web links

• Profile of Hitoshi Ashinano on anisearch.de
• Literature by and about Hitoshi Ashinano in the WorldCat bibliographic database