Shō Kitagawa

Shō Kitagawa ( Japanese き た が わ 翔 , Kitagawa Shō ; born June 28, 1967 in Shizuoka Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist .

biography

He published his first work as a professional draftsman in 1981 at the age of thirteen in the girls' manga magazine Bessatsu Margaret of the Shūeisha publishing house. This debut work was a short story called Banchō-kun wa gokigen Naname . For this magazine he created more Shōjo manga such as Moeko Ganbarimasu and Pure Boy in the following period . However, none of these were particularly durable.

Since the late 1980s, Kitagawa has been drawing his manga for an adult and male target group with far greater success ; his works have since appeared in Young Jump magazine. The series 19 (Nineteen) comprising 2,500 pages in twelve anthologies , on which he worked from 1988 to 1990, was his breakthrough. This was followed by the fifteen-volume series, even longer, BB Fish , which, like 19 before, was implemented as an anime . His best-known work is Hotman , a 3,000-page series that appeared in Young Jump from 1997 to 2000 and which became popular in Japan as a live television series thanks to its film adaptation. This manga, whose fifteen anthologies have sold over 3.7 million times in Japan, is about a teacher who is given a five-year-old girl who is said to be his daughter by a former lover. The teacher, who is also the eldest son in his family and therefore constantly cares about his younger siblings, takes care of the daughter from now on. Although Kitagawa created more mangas for Young Jump after Hotman's termination (including Chinatsu no Uta in 2004 about a girl with a supernatural, healing voice), these could no longer come close to its success and length.

Kitagawa switched to Kōdansha publishing house and published the manga series Deka ga Ippiki, consisting of around 1,400 pages, in its Morning magazine from 2005 to 2006 .

Works (selection)

• Banchō-kun wa gokigen Naname ( 番 長 く ん は ご き げ ん な な め ), 1981
• Moeko Ganbarimasu ( 萌 子 が ん ば り ま す ), 1985
• Pure Boy (PURE ボ ー イ , Pure Bōi ), 1987
• Teens Shiyōka! (TEENS し よ う か!), 1988
• 19 (Nineteen) , 1988-1990
• BB Fish ( BB フ ィ ッ シ ュ , BB Fisshu ), 1991–1994
• C , 1994-1997
• Hotman (ホ ッ ト マ ン , Hottoman ), 1997–2000
• Perfect Twin , 2001-2002
• Honey !! , 2002-2003
• Chinatsu no Uta ( 千 夏 の う た ), 2004
• Deka ga Ippiki ( 刑事 が 一匹 ), 2005-2006
• Thirty , 2007
• Death Sweeper ( デ ス ・ ス ウ ィ ー パ ー , Desu Suwīpa ), 2007–2009
• Bengo! , 2009-2010

Web links

• Kitagawa's biography and information about Deka ga Ippiki at Morning (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Shō Kitagawa on Anime News Network
2. ↑ Information from TBS on Hotman ( memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.