Masakazu Katsura

Masakazu Katsura ( Japanese 桂 正 和 , Katsura Masakazu ; born December 10, 1962 in Fukui Prefecture , Japan) is a Japanese mangaka .

Masakazu Katsura at an autograph session in Barcelona, ​​2006

Life

He made his debut in 1981 with Tenkōsei wa Hensōsei !? in the manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump issue 32/1981, for which he won the Tezuka Award of the magazine in the same year . He had great success with Wingman , but it wasn't until his next work, Video Girl Ai , a romantic story with beautiful girls, that he changed his drawing style, which eventually gave him his breakthrough and earned him the nickname Master of Curves .

He is a big Batman fan, which is particularly evident in the series Shadow Lady , in which the young, inconspicuous Aimi Komomori becomes the Shadow Lady, a daring and flirtatious facade climber and burglar, at night.

After the romantic comedies I "s and Video Girl Ai , his latest work Zetman , which is based on motifs from Batman, is significantly darker and more violent.

In Japan his works appear in the Shueisha publishing house and in its magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump .

So far DNA² , Video Girl Ai , I "s and Shadow Lady have been published in German by Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg.

Masakazu Katsura's works Video Girl Ai , DNA² , I "s" and Zetman were also adapted as animes .

Works

• Wingman ( ウ イ ン グ マ ン ; 1983–1985, 13 volumes)
• Chōkidōin Vander ( 超 機 動員 ヴ ァ ン ダ ー ; 1985–1986, 2 volumes)
• Present From Lemon ( プ レ ゼ ン ト ・ フ ロ ム LEMON ; 1987, 2 volumes)
• Katsura Masakazu Collection ( 桂 正 和 コ レ ク シ ョ ン ; 1989, 2 volumes), short story collection containing the following previously published chapters:
  • Chiisai Akari ( 小 さ な 灯 り ; 1988)
  • Natsu ni Suzumi! ( 夏 に す ず み! ; 1982)
  • Aki ni Suzumi ... ( 秋 に す ず み ... ; 1982)
  • Tenkōsei wa Hensōsei !? ( 転 校 生 は ヘ ン ソ ウ セ イ!? ; 1981)
  • Gakuen Butai 3 Parokan ( 学園 部隊 3 パ ロ か ん ; 1981)
  • Gakuen Butai 3 Parokan II ( 学園 部隊 3 パ ロ か ん II )
  • Tsubasa ( ツ バ サ )
  • Video Girl ( ビ デ オ ガ ー ル ; 1989)
  • Étranger ( エ ト ​​ラ ン ゼ ; 1988)
  • Kana (1986)
  • Suzukaze no Pantenon ( す ず 風 の パ ン テ ノ ン ; 1986)
  • Voguman ( ヴ ォ ー グ マ ン ; 1985)
• Video Girl Ai and Video Girl Len (電影 少女 ; 1989–1992, 15 volumes)
• DNA² ( D ・ N ・ A² 〜 何処 か で 失 く し た あ い つ の ア イ イ ツ 〜 ; 1993–1994, 5 volumes)
• Zetman: Katsura Masakazu Tampenshū ( ZETMAN 桂 正 和 短 編 集 ; 1995, single volume), collection of short stories containing the following previously published chapters:
  • Zetman (1994)
  • Shin-no-Shin: Ai to Nikushimi no Timeslip ( SHIN-NO-SHIN 愛 と 憎 し み の タ イ ム ス リ ッ プ ; 1989)
  • Woman in the Man - Otoko no Naka no Onna ( WOMAN IN THE MAN - 男 の 中 の 女 - ; 1993)
  • Shadow Lady (1995)
• Shadow Lady (1995–1996, 3 volumes)
• I "s (1997-2000, 15 volumes)
• 4C (1998, single volume in 3 books, ISBN 4-08-782762-3 ), Artbook
  • L-side ‹LOVERS-side› Katsura Masakazu Illustrations 1
  • R-side ‹HEROES-side› Katsura Masakazu Illustrations 2
  • SHADOW LADY Katsura Masakazu Illustrations 3 - 「SHADOW LADY」
• Zetman (since 2002, 17+ volumes)