Miwa Abiko

Miwa Abiko ( Japanese 安 孫子 三 和 , Abiko Miwa ; born January 23, 1963 in Ōgawara , Miyagi , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist .

For the short stories Shōten Rappa no Oto ga suru and Copy the Face she won the 43rd and 44th youth competition of the manga magazine LaLa , which is mainly aimed at young girls. For this magazine published by Hakusensha Verlag, she mainly drew in her subsequent career. The draftswoman's debut is the sixteen- page work Romanticist na Nijitachi , which was published in the 1983 summer edition of Bessatsu LaLa .

Abiko's breakthrough came with the 1,800-page manga Mikan Enikki (Eng. "Mikan's illustrated diary"), which was published in LaLa from 1988 to 1995 . It's about a girl's friendship with an orange cat who can speak and write. The manga was implemented as an anime television series from 1992 to 1993 .

From the first issue of Melody magazine in October 1997 to the May 1999 issue, she published her approximately 650-page manga series Rakuen e ikō! (Eng. "Let's go to paradise!"). Several new stories about Miwan Enikki and some works for Silky magazine followed. Silky and Melody are aimed primarily at adult women ( Josei ) and thus at a more mature target group than the LaLa .

Works (selection)

• Shōten Rappa no Oto ga suru ( 昇天 ラ ッ パ の 音 が す る ), 1983
• Copy the Face ( コ ピ ー the フ ェ イ ス ), 1983
• Romanticist na Nijitachi ( ロ マ ン チ ス ト な 虹 た ち ), 1983
• Tenshi no Furubi ( 天使 の 降 る 日 ), 1983–1984
• Mayonaka o sugite mo ( 真 夜 中 を す ぎ て も ), 1985–1987
• Mikan Enikki (み か ん ・ 絵 日記 ), 1988–1995
• Pao - Yume no Tamadebako ( パ オ ・ 夢 の 玉手 箱 ), 1991–1992
• Kimi ga Sekai o mawashiteru ... !! ( 君 が 世界 を 回 し て る… !! ), 1996–1997
• Rakuen e ikō! ( 楽 園 へ 行 こ う! ), 1997–1999
• Mikan Enikki Tokubetsühlen ( み か ん ・ 絵 日記 特別 編 ), since 1999
• Umi o miteita Inu ( 海 を み て い た 犬 ), 2003-2004
• Yayan no Kimochi ( や や ん の 気 持 ち ), 2005–2006

Web links

• List of almost all publications since 1995 (Japanese)
• List of all publications up to 2003 (Japanese)
• Profile of Miwa Abiko on anisearch.de