Reiko Shimizu

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Reiko Shimizu ( Japanese 清水 玲子 , Shimizu Reiko ; born March 26, 1963 in Tokyo Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist whose works are aimed at teenage girls and young women and can therefore be assigned to the Shōjo genre. She works for the Hakusensha publishing house.

Life

Her first manga as a professional illustrator published Reiko Shimizu in 1983 with the short story Sansaro Monogatari in manga magazine LaLa , for at that time, among other things, the two 24er Ryoko Yamagishi and Yumiko Oshima recorded. Since her debut, Shimizu has mainly worked for LaLa. Like Moto Hagio , the illustrator specializes in science fiction stories, among which her early works Noah no Uchūsen and Mōhitotsu no Shinwa can be counted.

The two robots Jack and Elena, who can live forever, appeared for the first time in Milky Way . This manga was filmed in 1988 as a 30-minute original video animation and is so far the only work by Shimizu that has been implemented as an anime . The two characters Jack and Elena also acted as main characters in other of their mangas, for example in the two individual volumes Tenshitachi no shinkaron and 22XX as well as in the over 800-page manga series Ryū no nemeru hoshi . From 1988 to 1993 she published the mystery manga Tsuki no Ko in over 2300 pages in the LaLa. In it she uses motifs from Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid and tells of a young New York dancer who gets to know a boy in a car accident who no longer carries any memories with him and who appears to be a descendant of a mermaid.

Reiko Shimizu's greatest success came with Princess Kaguya , which is based on the Japanese folk tale Taketori Monogatari and was influenced by Moto Hagio's science fiction manga They were Eleven . The adopted 15-year-old Akira is said to be coming to Kabuchi Island to attend a training camp. There she meets other young people who - like Akira - were chosen as human sacrifices for the moon princess Kaguya in their childhood. Princess Kaguya , which was published in Japan from 1993 to 2004 in over 5000 pages in LaLa and summarized in 27 anthologies, was also published in France, Italy and Germany and won the Shogakukan Manga Prize in 2002 .

The author, who also published three art books, is currently working on the thriller Himitsu - Top Secret for the manga magazine Melody . Himitsu - Top Secret was nominated for the Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize in 2002, but had to admit defeat to Takehiko Inoues Vagabond .

Works (selection)

  • Sansaro Monogatari ( 三 叉路 物語 ), 1983
  • Noah no Uchūsen ( ノ ア の 宇宙 船 ), 1985
  • Mōhitotsu no Shinwa , 1986
  • Milky Way ( ミ ル キ ー ウ ェ イ , Mirukī Wei ), 1986
  • Tenshitachi no Shinkaron ( 天使 た ち の 進化論 ), 1986
  • Ryū no nemeru Hoshi ( 竜 の 眠 る 星 ), 1987–1988
  • Tsuki no Ko (月 の 子 ), 1988–1993
  • 22XX , 1994
  • Princess Kaguya (輝 夜 姫 , Kaguya Hime ), 1993-2004
  • Wild Cats , 2000
  • Himitsu - Top Secret (秘密 - ト ッ プ ・ シ ー ク レ ッ ト - , Himitsu - Toppu Shīkuretto ), since 2001

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