Reiko Okano

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Reiko Okano ( Japanese 岡野 玲子 , Okano Reiko , married Tezuka; born June 24, 1960 in Koga , Ibaraki Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist .

Okano published her first work in 1982 with Esther Please ( エ ス タ ー プ リ ー ズ , Esutā Purīzu ) in the manga magazine Petit Flower . Her manga series Fancy Dance ( フ ァ ン シ ィ ダ ン ス , Fanshi Dansu ), through which she became known, also appeared in this from 1984 to 1990 . This over 1,600 page comic, which was filmed in 1989 under the direction of Masayuki Suo and for which she won the Shogakukan Manga Prize , is about a young person who is supposed to take over his father's Zen temple, but prefers to do so want to lead modern life in the city.

While her previously published comics were aimed at a young, female target group as shōjo manga, she created a manga for adult men with Ryōgoku Oshare Rikishi ( 両 国花 錦 闘 士 ) for Big Comic Spirits magazine from 1989 to 1990 Sumo wrestlers take center stage. By Patricia A. McPhillips novel The Forgotten Beasts of Eld , the series was calling ( コーリング , Kōringu ), which from 1991 to 1993 in the magazine Comic Tom was published.

With Onmyōji ( 陰陽師 ) Okano drew another implementation of a novel for the magazines Comic Burger and Melody from 1993 to 2005, this time based on Baku Yumemakura . This work, which is set in the Heian period and in which Abe no Seimei is the protagonist, is her longest manga to date with a length of around 3800 pages. For Onmyōji , the illustrator was awarded the Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize in 2001 and the Seiun Prize in 2006. The thirteen anthologies of the manga sold over five million times in Japan.

Yōmi Henshō Yawa ( 妖 魅 変 成 夜話 ), which was published from 1995 in Panja magazine and from 1999 to 2003 by Heibonsha publishing house, is set in a Daoist paradise.

Okano is married to director Makoto Tezuka , Osamu Tezuka's son. Her work has been translated into French and Italian.

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  1. ↑ a b http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/book/news/20051026bk06.htm ( Memento from October 29, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/22/AR2007022200408.html
personal data
SURNAME Okano, Reiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 岡野 玲子 (Japanese, maiden name); Tezuka Reiko (real name); 手塚 玲子 (Japanese, real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese manga artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Ibaraki Prefecture , Japan