Minetaro Mochizuki

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Minetarō Mochizuki ( Japanese 望月 峯 太郎 , Mochizuki Minetarō ; born January 29, 1964 in Yokohama , Kanagawa Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist and scenarioist.

Career

With the short story Fool's Mate ( フ ー ル ズ メ イ ト , fūruzumeito ) he won the Chiba Tetsuya Prize . It was first published in 1985 when he first published this short story in the manga Young Magazine , a mostly adult male Seinen magazine for which Mochizuki has worked ever since. He began his first series Batāshi Kingyo ( バ タ ア シ 金魚 ) that same year, which appeared until 1988. The approximately 1,400-page comedic manga about a high school student who joins a swimming club out of love was a success and was made a feature film in 1990.

In 1990 the series Baikumeen ( バ イ ク メ ～ ン ) followed in Young Magazine and in 1993 the horror manga Zashiki Onna ( 座 敷 女 ). Zashiki Onna's anthology publication , which is about a boy who is stalked , became a bestseller with sales of over 400,000. For Mister Magazine Mochizuki created the mangas Ocha no Ma ( お 茶 茶 間 , 1992) and Samehada Otoko to Momojiri Onna ( 鮫 肌 男 と 桃 尻 女 , 1994).

From 1995 to 2000, Young Magazine published his most successful work to date under the title Dragon Head . In this, only three high school students survive in a train accident in a tunnel, who from now on fight for their survival and their cohesion in the tunnel and want to find out what caused the accident. Dragon Head was in the favor of the critics (the manga won the 1997 Kōdansha Manga Prize and 2000 the Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize , in 2001 he was nominated for the Seiun Prize ); Katsuhiro Ōtomo described Mochizuki as "the most talented mangaka of his generation" . The ten anthologies of the 2,000-page comic, which was also made into a feature film, have been translated into several languages ​​and have sold over 6.5 million copies in Japan.

From 2002 to March 2008 he drew the series Maiwai ( 万 祝 ) for Young Magazine . The protagonist in this manga is a fifteen-year-old martial artist.

Further awards

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cover picture of Young Magazine , issue 2/1985
  2. ↑ Zashikionna. Phantom Stalker Woman. story & artwork: Minetaro Mochizuki. Kodan Club, archived from the original on December 31, 2008 ; accessed on August 26, 2014 (English).
  3. ↑ Minetarō Mochizuki at Manga-News.com (French)
  4. ↑ A feature film adaptation of Dragon Head at TBS ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Japanese) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tbs.co.jp
  5. ↑ Maiwai at Young Magazine (Japanese)

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personal data
SURNAME Mochizuki, Minetaro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 望月 峯 太郎 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese manga artist and scenarist
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Yokohama , Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan