Kazuya Minekura

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Kazuya Minekura ( Japanese 峰 倉 か ず や , Minekura Kazuya ; born March 23, 1975 in Kanagawa Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist .

Life

Because she did not want to go to university after graduating from high school, but also did not want to have a real job, Minekura took part in a manga competition in the second year of high school and won it. She then published her debut as a professional comic artist in 1993 with the first chapter of the Boys Love series Brother in the manga magazine Comic Genki . The manga was later published as an anthology by Rapport- Verlag. With Just !! she started another series on a relationship between gay men in Chara magazine in 1994 . She took up the same concept from 1999 to 2000 with Shiritsu Araiso Kōtō Gakkō Seitokai Shikkōbu , a two-volume work that was also implemented as an original video animation in 2002 .

Minekura's greatest success so far is the manga Saiyuki , a version of the classic Chinese novel The Journey to the West . She worked on this series from 1996 to 2002 for Square Enix and its G-Fantasy magazine, after which she changed publishers and has continued the story since 2002 in Zero-Sum magazine under the title Saiyūki Reload . The manga was translated into numerous languages, implemented in the form of two anime television series and processed several times as merchandise. The nine anthologies of the first manga series sold over 4.5 million copies. In Saiyuki Minekura tells of a world in which the peaceful coexistence of demons and humans is suddenly disrupted when some demons start attacking humans. The four protagonists are supposed to move to the West to find out why. Due to the Bishōnen appearance of the main characters, the manga in Japan is especially popular with girls and young women.

The characters in Saiyuki each have a dramatic past. The cartoonist goes into more detail about the past of the main characters in the series Saiyūki Gaiden, set 500 years before the plot of the main series . Started in 1999 for G-Fantasy magazine , this prequel was published between 2002 and 2009 in the Manga magazine Ward .

In 1999 the illustrator started the two comics Stigma in Wings magazine and Bus Gamer in Stencil magazine, whereby Stigma , atypical for mangas, appeared completely in color. Since 2001 Minekura has been drawing for Chara on the Boys-Love-Manga Wild Adapter , which so far consists of six edited volumes.

So far, Kazuya Minekura has published eight art books with illustrations on Saiyuki , three in the backgammon series and five in the salty dog series .

Works

  • Brother , 1993-1994
  • Just !! , 1994
  • Saiyuki (最 遊記 , saiyūki ), 1996-2002
  • Shiritsu Araiso Kōtō Gakkō Seitokai Shikkōbu ( 私立 荒 磯 高等学校 生 徒 会 執行 部 ), 1999-2000
  • Stigma ( ス テ ィ グ マ , seiguma ), 1999–2000
  • Saiyūki Gaiden ( 最 遊記 外 伝 ), 1999–2000, 2002–2009
  • Bus Gamer , 1999-2002
  • Wild Adapter , since 2001
  • Saiyūki Reload ( 最 遊記 RELOAD), since 2002
  • Hachi no Su ( 蜂 の 巣 ), since 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile of Kazuya Minekura. Egmont Manga & Anime, archived from the original on July 28, 2007 ; Retrieved August 26, 2014 .
  2. ↑ http://www.famitsu.com/entertainment/news/2001/08/21/n01.html
  3. ↑ Masanao Amano: Manga Design . Cologne 2004, Taschen Verlag, ISBN 3-8228-2591-3 , p. 508.
personal data
SURNAME Minekura, Kazuya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 峰 倉 か ず や (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese manga artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Kanagawa Prefecture , Japan