Kozue Amano
Kozue Amano ( Japanese 天野 こ ず え , Amano Kozue ; born May 26, 1974 in Saitama Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist .
Life
After she had gained experience with dōjinshi as an amateur comic artist , she took part with the actual spelling of her name ( 天野 梢 ) in 1993 in a young talent competition of the Enix publishing house. With her manga Earth ( ア ー ス , āsu ) she won the Big Rookie-shō , the main prize of this competition. This award gave her the opportunity to start a professional career. In 1994, Amano published Zen'yasai ( 前夜 祭 ) in Fresh Gangan magazine, her first commercial work. Since then she has published her works under a slightly different spelling of her name, writing her first name with Hiragana , but leaving her family name with Kanji as usual ( 天野 こ ず え ).
More work for Enix followed. From 1995 to 1998 she brought out her approximately 1,000-page manga series Roman Club ( 浪漫 倶 楽 部 , rōman kurabu ) in Shōnen Gangan magazine. It then appeared in six books. This was followed from 1998 to 2001 by the series Crescent Noise ( ク レ セ ン ト ノ イ ズ , kuresento noizu ) for the magazine G-Fantasy ; After the first publication in the magazine, the Enix-Verlag published them in a total of six anthologies.
In 2001 Amano created the future manga series Aqua for Stencil magazine about a young person who becomes a gondola on a water town based on Venice . Aqua was successful, but the illustrator ended the series after about 350 pages because she wanted to change the publisher.
Under the title Aria was Aqua until 2008 when Mag-Garden Publishing House in the comic Blade continues magazine. The manga is Amano's most successful and longest work with a length of around 2,000 pages. Aria was implemented as an anime television series in three seasons and the anthology publications have sold over three million copies in Japan. Because of Aria's success , her earlier works have been reissued. In November 2008, the series Amanchu! Followed in Comic Blade magazine . ( あ ま ん ち ゅ! ).
Your comics will be translated into Chinese, Korean, English, German, French, Italian and Thai. She has also published four art books: Alpha (2004), Stella (2005), Cielo (2006) and Birth (2011).
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amano, Kozue |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 天野 こ ず え (Japanese); 天野 梢 (real name, Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese manga artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saitama Prefecture , Japan |