Kentaro Yabuki

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Kentarō Yabuki ( Japanese 矢吹 健 太 朗 , Yabuki Kentarō ; * February 4, 1980 in Kōchi , Kōchi Prefecture ) is a Japanese manga artist .

Life

In September 1997, he won the Tenkaichi Manga Shō ( 矢吹 健, 朗 ) for the short story Moon Dust , a prize for young comic artists awarded by the manga magazine Shōnen Jump from 1996 to 2003. With this award he got the opportunity to draw further works for Shōnen Jump and its sister magazines. His first publication was the short story Yamato Gensōki , which appeared in the spring 1998 issue of Akamaru Jump magazine. In 1999 Yabuki was working as an assistant at Takeshi Obata when he was drawing on Hikaru no Go .

It was decided to make the short story Yamato Gensōki into a series. In 1999, several chapters by Yamato Gensōki appeared weekly in Shōnen Jump . Shūeisha also brought out these chapters in two edited volumes.

The breakthrough came with the manga series Black Cat , which developed from the short story Stray Cat , which Yabuki published in 1999. The approximately 3700 page crime story was first published from 2000 to 2004 in Shōnen Jump and then in 20 anthologies. These sold around twelve million times in Japan. Black Cat was implemented as an anime television series and translated into several languages.

The series Love Trouble ran from April 2006 to August 2009 . In contrast to Black Cat , this one is less action-oriented and more a romantic comedy. In addition, this time Yabuki mainly worked on the drawings, while the author Saki Hasemi was primarily responsible for the story.

After the end of Love Trouble , Yabuki published the one-shot Futagami Double in Shōnen Jump in January 2010 and started the publication of a manga adaptation of the light novel series Mayoi Neko Overrun! by author Tomohiro Matsu in Jump Square magazine . The series switched to the Jump Square spin-off magazine Jump SQ.19 in May 2010 . After the publication of the tenth chapter in the autumn issue of the magazine in November 2010, no more chapters in the series appeared; It was not until August 2011 that Shūeisha officially declared that no more chapters would appear and the series was thus ended, without giving an exact reason for the end.

Meanwhile, Yabuki has been working on the Love Trouble Darkness series , a sequel to Love Trouble, since October 2010 . The manga was published in Jump Square and, like its predecessor, was created in collaboration with Saki Hasemi. The manga ended in March 2017. In their comments in the final anthology of Love Trouble Darkness , Yabuki and Hasemi expressed an interest in returning to the Love Trouble franchise with a new release at some point in the future .

From November 2014, Yabuki again cooperated with the author Tomohiro Matsu, for whose new light novel series Hatena Illusion Yabuki drew the illustrations. After the fourth book in the series in November 2015, that came to an end because Matsu died in May 2016 and the series remained unfinished. Since August 2019 Shūeisha has been releasing a new start in the series under the title Hatena Illusion R , for which Yabuki is again contributing the illustrations.

In the August 2015 issue of Jump Square , Yabuki announced that he had remarried. Yabuki also has a daughter from a previous marriage with his former manga assistant Shiho Kashiwagi.

Yabuki's next project was a manga adaptation of the anime Darling in the Franxx , which started parallel to the anime in January 2018. The series was published in Shūeisha's web magazine Shōnen Jump + . At the end of December 2018, Yabuki announced that from now on the manga would develop strongly in a different direction than the anime; Yabuki called this "the ultimate what-if scenario". This presentation of an alternative story is also the reason why the manga continued even after the anime ended. The manga ran for another year and finally ended in January 2020.

Yabuki has been working on the manga series Ayakashi Triangle in Shōnen Jump since June 2020 . The series is based on Yabuki's one-shot Reo × Leo , which he also published in Shōnen Jump in February 2019 . With Ayakashi Triangle , Yabuki returned almost 11 years after the end of Love Trouble with a series in the Shonen Jump . In addition, the series is Yabuki's first series since Black Cat ended in June 2004, on which he is working as an author and which is not based on an existing license.

Works

Manga:

  • Yamato Gensōki ( 邪 馬 台 幻想 記 ), 1998–1999, 2 volumes
  • Stray Cat , 1999, one-shot
  • Black Cat (ブ ラ ッ ク キ ャ ッ ト , Burakku Kyatto ), 2000–2004, 20 volumes
  • Trans Boy , 2004, one-shot
  • Love Trouble (To LOVEる - と ら ぶ る - , To LOVE-Ru -Toraburu- ), 2006–2009, 18 volumes, text: Saki Hasemi
  • Futagami Double ( フ タ ガ ミ ☆ ダ ブ ル , Futagami Daburu ), 2009, One-shot
  • Mayoi Neko Overrun! , 2010, 2 volumes, manga adaptation of the light novel series of the same name
  • Love Trouble Darkness (To LOVEる - と ら ぶ る - ダ ー ク ネ ス , To LOVE-Ru -Toraburu- Dākunesu ), 2010–2017, 18 volumes, text: Saki Hasemi
  • Darling in the Franxx , 2018–2020, 8 volumes, manga adaptation of the anime of the same name
  • Reo × Leo ( れ お × レ オ ), 2019, One-shot
  • Ayakashi Triangle (あ や か し ト ラ イ ア ン グ ル , Ayakashi Toraianguru ), since 2020

Illustrations:

  • Kaya Kizaki : Jigen Bakuju ( 時限 爆 呪 ), 1999
  • Tomohiro Matsu : Hatena Illusion ( は て な ☆ イ リ ュ ー ジ ョ ン , Hatena Iryūjon ), 2014–2015
  • Tomohiro Matsu , StoryWorks : Hatena Illusion R ( は て な ☆ イ リ ュ ー ジ ョ ン R , Hatena Iryūjon R ), since 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at Hatena
  2. ↑ Description of a Playstation 2 video game about Black Cat on animate.tv ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ To Love-Ru's Yabuki Confirmed for Mayoi Neko Overrun (Updated). Anime News Network, December 1, 2009, accessed July 29, 2020 .
  4. ^ Shonen Jump, Jump Square to Launch New Spinoff Mags. Anime News Network, April 13, 2010, accessed July 29, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Mayoi Neko Overrun! Manga Abruptly Ends in Japan. Anime News Network, August 3, 2011, accessed July 29, 2020 .
  6. ↑ To Love-Ru Spinoff Manga Series to Launch in October. Anime News Network, July 29, 2010, accessed July 29, 2020 .
  7. ↑ To Love-Ru -Trouble- Darkness Manga's Finale Listed on March 4. Anime News Network, February 22, 2017, accessed July 29, 2020 .
  8. ↑ To Love-Ru Story Creator: Darkness Is Not the Final Chapter. Anime News Network, April 9, 2017, accessed July 29, 2020 .
  9. ↑ 'Mayoi Neko Overrun,' 'Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father! ' Novelist Tomohiro Matsu Passes Away at the 43rd Anime News Network, May 3, 2016, accessed July 29, 2020 .
  10. ↑ は て な ☆ イ リ ュ ー ジ ョ ン R. Shūeisha, accessed July 29, 2020 .
  11. ↑ To Love-Ru / Black Cat Manga Artist Kentaro Yabuki Gets Married. Anime News Network, August 1, 2015, accessed July 29, 2020 .
  12. ↑ To Love-Ru's Kentaro Yabuki's New Manga is DARLING in the FRANXX. Anime News Network, December 15, 2017, accessed July 29, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Kentaro Yabuki Says Darling in the Franxx Manga Will Have 'Major Divergences' From the Anime. Anime News Network, January 14, 2019, accessed July 29, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Kentaro Yabuki's DARLING in the FRANXX Manga to End in 3 Chapters. Anime News Network, December 15, 2019, accessed July 29, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Kentarō Yabuki, Ryūhei Tamura Launch New Manga in Weekly Shonen Jump Magazine in June. Anime News Network, June 7, 2020, accessed July 29, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Mangaka Musings 06/21/2020. VIZ Media, June 21, 2020, accessed on July 29, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Shonen Jump Publishes 5 1-Shot Manga for Valentines Day. Anime News Network, February 8, 2019, accessed July 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Yabuki, Kentaro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 矢吹 健 太 朗 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese manga artist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Kōchi , Kōchi Prefecture , Japan