Natsuki Takaya

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Natsuki Takaya ( Japanese 高 屋 奈 月 , Takaya Natsuki ; born July 7, 1973 in Shizuoka Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist whose works are aimed at young girls and are therefore part of the Shōjo genre.

Life

Takaya's dream of becoming a comic book artist was strengthened in childhood. In the first grade of elementary school, she drew her first comics. At the age of seventeen she won a young talent award from the manga magazine Hana to Yume , for which Kaori Yuki and Saki Hiwatari worked at the time. She published her first manga as a professional illustrator in 1991 with the short story Sickly Boy wa hi ni yowai in the manga magazine Bessatsu Hana to Yume . Several other short works followed for its parent sister magazine Hana to Yume , for which she has been working since then.

From 1994 to 1997 she worked on her first longer manga, the more than 900-page Geneimusō . In it she tells of Tamaki, who, like many people from earlier generations, is supposed to fight against evil forces that threaten humanity. Takaya's next work, entitled Tsubasa wo motsu mono , was a fantasy series consisting of several individual chapters. Tsubasa wo motsu mono was published from 1995 to 1998 in Hana to Yume and is about a girl in the 22nd century who wants to give up her life as a thief and instead pursue an honest job. Many people are looking for the legendary Tsubasa that is supposed to fulfill their wishes.

The author achieved her greatest success to date with Fruits Basket , which was first published in 1998 and ended in November 2006 after more than 3,900 pages. For this manga, which was translated into several languages ​​and implemented as a 26-part anime series, she received the 25th Kodansha Manga Prize in the Shōjo category in 2001 . Fruits Basket , whose 23 anthologies have sold over eighteen million copies in Japan, is about the high school student Tōru Honda , who no longer has any parents and has to move out of her grandfather's house for a while. Eventually she moves into the shared apartment of three descendants of the Sōma family. Since these are animated by the curse of the branches of the earth , they always turn into animals when they are hugged by the opposite sex.

Works

  • Sickly Boy wa Hi ni yowai (SICKLY BOY は 陽 に 弱 い ), 1991
  • Born Free , 1992
  • Genei Musō (幻影 夢想 ), 1994–1997
  • Tsubasa o Motsu Mono (翼 を 持 つ 者 ), 1995–1998
  • Fruits Basket (フ ル ー ツ バ ス ケ ッ ト , Furūtsu Basuketto ), 1998–2006
  • Komogomo (こ も ご も ), 2006 one-shot
  • Twinkle Stars (星 は 歌 う , Hoshi wa Utau ), 2007

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Star in the Shôjo firmament: In an interview with Manga-ka Natsuki Takaya , AnimaniA, 05/2007, p. 38
personal data
SURNAME Takaya, Natsuki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 高 屋 奈 月 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese manga artist
DATE OF BIRTH 7th July 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Shizuoka Prefecture , Japan