Takako Shimura

Takako Shimura ( Japanese 志 村 貴子 , Shimura Takako ; born October 23, 1973 in Kanagawa Prefecture ) is a Japanese mangaka .

Career

Her first publication was the short story Boku wa, Onna no ko in 1997 in the manga magazine Comic Beam . In 1997 she published her first series Shikii no Jūnin in the same magazine .

Her two best-known series Hōrō Musuko and Aoi Hana were also implemented as anime television series and translated into different languages. Both deal with LGBT topics: while Hōrō Musuko focuses on different children who question their gender identity and who sometimes find their transgender identity in the course of the series , Aoi Hana deals with a lesbian love story at a girls' school. Hōrō Musuko , published in the USA by Fantagraphics as Wandering Son , was awarded the Great Graphic Novels for Teens prize by the American Library Association .

Your mangas appear in magazines for different target groups. In the course of her career she drew for both Boys Love magazines published by Libre Shuppan (including Reijin and Be × Boy ) as well as Josei Kiss magazine , Shōnen magazine Jump SQ and Seinen magazine Young King, as well as a few others.

Works

• Boku wa, Onna no Ko ( ぼ く は 、 お ん な の こ ), 1997
• Shikii no Jūnin ( 敷 居 の 住 人 ), 1997–2002
• Dōnika Naru Hibi ( ど う に か な る 日 々 ), 2002-2004
• Love Buzz ( ラ ヴ ・ バ ズ , Ravu Bazu ), 2002–2005
• Hōrō Musuko (放浪 息 子 ), 2002–2013
• Seikatsu Ijishō ( 生活 維持 省 ), 2003
• Aoi Hana (青 い 花 ), 2004–2013
• To Aru Hi ( と あ る ひ ), 2004-2005
• Route 225 ( ル ー ト 225 , Rūto 225 ), 2007-2008, to Chiya Fujino
• Fushō no Musuko ( 不肖 の 息 子 ), 2009
• Kawaii Akuma ( か わ い い 悪 魔 ), 2010
• Awajima Hyakkei ( 淡 島 百 景 ), since 2011
• Musume no Iede ( 娘 の 家 出 ), since 2012
• Okite Saisho ni Suru Koto wa ( 起 き て 最初 に す る こ と は ), 2013
• Wagamama Chie-chan ( わ が ま ま ち え ち ゃ ん ), 2014–2015
• Character design for Aldnoah.Zero , 2014
• Koi Iji ( こ い い じ ), since 2014
• Battery , since 2016, according to Atsuko Asano

Web links

• Takako Shimura website (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 志 村 貴子 フ ァ ン サ イ ト. Retrieved September 28, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Wandering Son V. 1st American Library Association, 2012, accessed November 3, 2016 (English).