Saki Hiwatari

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Saki Hiwatari ( Japanese 日 渡 早 紀 Hiwatari Saki ; born July 5, 1961 in Kanagawa Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist . Her works are aimed at young girls, so they can be assigned to the Shōjo genre.

Life

Saki Hiwatari published her first manga as a professional illustrator in 1982 with the short story Mahōtsukai wa shitteiru in the manga magazine Hana to Yume , for which Jun Mihara Hamidashikko , among others , drew at the same time . For this magazine, she created several more short mangas in the years that followed. Between 1983 and 1987 she created four different manga series with the same main character, Akuma-kun .

The artist's breakthrough came with Please Save My Earth , which is about a sixteen-year-old who can communicate with plants and animals. The over 3700 page manga was published in Hana to Yume from 1987 to 1994 and sold 15.6 million copies in Japan. It was also filmed in the form of a six-part original video animation and translated into numerous languages. In 1995 she was nominated for the Seiun Prize for Please Save My Earth .

After this success, Hiwatari published Mirai no Utena about a young person who finds himself in a dispute between two families that has been going on for centuries. The manga ended after four years in which over 1,800 pages had appeared in Hana-to-Yume magazine. Global Garden , published in Japan from 2002 to 2005, tells the story of two boys who were given the task by Albert Einstein to find a girl at the beginning of the 21st century who would change history. The more than 1000-page mystery drama appeared in France and South Korea, among others.

The author has been working on Boku o Tsutsumu Tsuki no Hikari for the manga magazine Bessatsu Hana to Yume since 2005, of which 13 anthologies have been published so far (as of October 2013).

Works (selection)

  • Mahōtsukai wa shitteiru ( 魔法 使 い は 知 っ て い る ), 1982
  • Akuma-kun ni Onegai ( ア ク マ く ん に お 願 い ), 1983
  • Hoshi wa, Subaru. ( 星 は 、 す ば る. ), 1984
  • Akuma-kun Boku wa Tenshi ni Naritai ( ア ク マ く ん ぼ く は 天使 に に な り た い ), 1984
  • Akuma-kun Black Minion ( ア ク マ く ん ブ ラ ッ ク ・ ミ ニ オ ン ), 1985
  • Akuma-kun Magic Bitter ( ア ク マ く ん 魔法 ★ BITTER ), 1985–1987
  • Please Save My Earth (ぼ く の 地球 を 守 っ て Boku no Chikyū o Mamotte ), 1987–1994
  • Vivid Remembrance 記憶 鮮明 Kioku Senmei (2004, Hakusensha) omnibus edition compiling:
    • 記憶 鮮明 Kioku Senmei (1991, Hakusensha)
    • 偶然 が 残 す も の 記憶 鮮明 2 Guuzen ga Nokosu Mono: Kioku Senmei 2 (2001, Hakusensha)
  • Mirai no Utena ( 未来 の う て な ), 1995–1999
  • Cosmo na Bokura! ( 宇宙 な ボ ク ら! ), 2000–2001
  • Global Garden , 2002-2005
  • Boku o Tsutsumu Tsuki no Hikari ( ボ ク を 包 む 月 の 光 ), since 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 記憶 鮮明. Hakusensha , accessed August 1, 2010 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ 記憶 鮮明 (花 と ゆ め COMICS) 新書 . Amazon, accessed August 1, 2010 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ 偶然 が 残 す も の - 記憶 鮮明 II-. Hakusensha , accessed August 1, 2010 (Japanese).
personal data
SURNAME Hiwatari, Saki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 日 渡 早 紀 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese manga artist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Kanagawa , Japan