Norihiro Yagi
Norihiro Yagi ( Japanese 八 木 教 広 , Yagi Norihiro ; * 1968 in Okinawa Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist .
Yagi had his first publication in 1990 with the short story UNdeadman , for which he won the Akatsuka Prize , a young talent award for young cartoonists of gag manga , from the manga magazine Gekkan Shōnen Jump . In this magazine he also brought out his first series from 1993 to 2000, Angel Densetsu ( エ ン ジ ェ ル 伝 説 ). This comedy comprises around 2,900 pages, which the Shūeisha publishing house also published in 15 edited volumes. It is about a youngster who has a good heart, but who is always mistaken for a thug because of his ugly appearance.
From 2001 to 2014 he worked for Gekkan Shōnen Jump or since its hiring for Jump Square on the manga Claymore , which consists of about 5,000 pages in 27 anthologies. Set in a medieval world, the series is about a warrior named Clare and her companions who have to fight as claymore against the monsters that threaten humans. The fantasy manga was sold over four million times in Japan in 2007 and implemented as an anime television series in 2007 .
His work is translated into Indonesian, English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Korean and Italian.
Individual evidence
- ↑ tsutaya.co.jp
- ↑ manngareview.com
- ↑ Shōnen Jump , edition 45/2007
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Yagi, Norihiro |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 八 木 教 広 (Japanese) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese manga artist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Okinawa Prefecture , Japan |