Nobuyuki Anzai

Nobuyuki Anzai

Nobuyuki Anzai ( Japanese 安西 信 行 , Anzai Nobuyuki ; born August 19, 1972 in Chiba Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist .

In 1990 he won with the short story Ken2 Strenger! ( 剣 2 STRENGER!) A young talent award from the Shogakukan publishing house - the 26th Shinjin Comic Taishō . His first publication was to take place in 1993 with another short story, D-Fucker , in the manga magazine Shōnen Sunday , after he had previously assisted the cartoonist Kazuhiro Fujita on his series Ushio to Tora . For Shōnen Sunday he was then a regular draftsman. From 1994 to 1995 his approximately 500-page manga series R Princess appeared in this magazine .

The breakthrough came with Recca no Honō ( 烈火 の 炎 , translated: Reccas Flamme , also known under the English title Flame of Recca ). As part of this comic series, which was also implemented as a 42-part anime television series, Anzai drew over 5000 pages for Shōnen Sunday from 1995 to 2002 . The protagonist of this manga is a young person with a fascination for ninjas who finds out that he himself is the descendant of a ninja clan that was destroyed 400 years ago.

From 2003 to 2006 the illustrator achieved another success with MÄR - Märchen Awakens Romance . The manga, consisting of around 2700 pages, about a boy who is catapulted into a fairy tale world from his school life and has to endure numerous adventures , was also published as an animated series , like Recca no Honō . In 2006 he was nominated for the Kōdansha Manga Prize for MÄR - Märchen Awakens Romance . From 2006 to 2007 Anzai worked with MÄR Omega on a sequel to the manga.

His works have been published in several edited volumes. He has already published over 50 books. 33 of them appeared on Recca no Honō ; these have sold over 25 million times in Japan. Anzai's work has been translated into English, German, French, Thai, Indonesian and Spanish.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.oudou.co.jp/topics/030412b.html ( Memento from March 24, 2003 in the Internet Archive )