Masami Tsuda

Masami Tsuda ( Japanese 津 田 雅美 , Tsuda Masami ; born July 9, 1970 in Kanagawa Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist whose works can be assigned to the Shōjo genre.

Life

Masami Tsuda was only enthusiastic about comics from the first year of high school. She published her first manga in 1993 with Aete Yokatta in a mystery special edition of the manga magazine LaLa , which is aimed at teenage girls. She won the LMG Kasaku Prize for this forty-page short story . In the following years she drew several short stories for LaLa and LaLa DX , some of which were published as a paperback.

She created her first ongoing series in 1995 with Kare Kano , which turned out to be a great success. The romantic manga, which tells the love story of the two high school students Yukino and Soichirō, sold over 11.15 million copies in Japan by December 2003, was implemented as an anime series, translated into numerous languages ​​and only ended in April 2005 after over 3,800 Pages.

In 1998 Hakusensha brought out three short stories by Tsudas in the anthology Yume no Shiro (Eng. "Dream Castle"). While the eponymous short story about a young person living peacefully in the forest who is married to a widowed king was published in the LaLa , the other manga contained therein were published in 1995 and 1996 in the Lunatic LaLa , which reached a smaller audience .

In 2008 she was able to produce another quite successful series with Chotto Edo made in LaLa , which ran until 2011 and whose chapters were summarized in 6 anthologies.

Works (selection)

• Aete yokatta ( 会 え て よ か っ た ), 1993, one-shot
• Busu to Himegimi ( ブ ス と 姫 君 ), 1994, 1 volume
• Onna ni natta Hi ( オ ン ナ に な っ た 日 ), 1995, 1 volume
• Tenshi no sumu Heya ( 天使 の 棲 む 部屋 ), 1995, 1 volume
• Kare Kano (彼 氏 彼女 の 事情 , Kareshi Kanojo no Jijō ), 1995–2005, 21 volumes
• Yume no Shiro ( 夢 の 城 ), 1998, 1 volume
• Nostalgia ( ノ ス タ ル ジ ア , Nosutarujia ), 2006, 1 volume
• Eensy-Weensy Monster (eensy-weensy モ ン ス タ ー ), 2006–2007, 2 volumes
• Chotto Edo made ( ち ょ っ と 江 戸 ま で ), 2008–2011, 6 volumes

Web links

• Biography at Carlsen Comics on carlsencomics.de
• List of all publications on comich.net (Japanese)