Tatsuya Egawa
Tatsuya Egawa ( Japanese 江川 達 也 , Egawa Tatsuya ; born March 8, 1961 in Nagoya ) is a Japanese manga artist .
biography
Egawa completed a mathematics degree at the Aichi College of Education and then taught mathematics at a primary school in Nagoya for five months until he turned to drawing comics. In the following time he worked as an assistant to Hiroshi Motomiya . His first publication was in 1984, when the first chapter of his Be Free! was published in the manga magazine Morning . He completed this in 1988 after more than 2,700 pages, which the Kōdansha- Verlag also summarized in twelve edited volumes. Be Free! is about a teacher at a high school who teaches his students on a friendly basis and shares his life experience with them. While working on Be Free! was Kōsuke Fujishima one of his assistants.
While Be Free! When his manga was designed primarily for adult men, he drew his next work for a younger readership: Magical Tarūto-kun was published weekly in the manga magazine Shōnen Jump , with the highest circulation from 1988 to 1992 , and was also implemented and included as an anime for television over 3900 pages in 21 edited volumes. In it, Egawa tells of a weak elementary school student who meets a little magician and from now on receives support in all situations.
In 1992 he started two his manga: Golden Boy and Tōkyō Daigaku Monogatari . Golden Boy is a revealing and humorous story about a young man who breaks off his studies and moves around on a mountain bike. This manga was published in Super Jump from 1992 to 1998 , after which it also appeared in ten anthologies. Tōkyō Daigaku Monogatari , which tells of a couple and their efforts to pass the entrance exam for the best university in Japan, as well as the subsequent student life, is Egawa's longest manga to date with over 7000 pages in 34 books. The series was published by Shogakukan in Big Comic Spirits magazine until 2001 and was implemented as a real film.
This was followed by series for Allman and Young Magazine and, from 2001 to 2005, an adaptation of the classic novel Genji Monogatari . From 2001 to 2006 he published in Big Comic Spirits Nichiro Sensō Monogatari , a historical manga in around 4400 pages and 22 anthologies about the Russo-Japanese War .
In 2003 he directed the porn film Akogare no Kateikyōshi ( 憧 れ の 戦 闘 員 ).
Works
- Be Free! , 1984-1988
- Magical Tarūto-kun (ま じ か る ☆ タ ル る ー ト く ん , majikkaru tarūto-kun ), 1988–1992
- Golden Boy , 1992-1998
- Tōkyō Daigaku Monogatari (東京 大学 物語 ), 1992-2001
- Take-chan to Papa ( タ ケ ち ゃ ん と パ パ ), 1995–1997
- Happy Boy , 1996-1997
- Madō Tenshi Unpoko ( 魔 動 天使 う ん ポ コ ), 1997–1999
- Deadman , 1998-2000
- Last Man ( ラ ス ト マ ン , rasutoman ), 1998–2001
- Bunkasai ura Jikkō Iinkai ( 文化 祭 ウ ラ 実 行 委員会 ), 2000–2001
- Nichiro Sensō Monogatari ( 日 露 戦 争 物語 ), 2001-2006
- Genji Monogatari ( 源氏物語 ), 2001-2005
- One Zero Nine , 2002
- Kachiku-jin Yabu ( 家畜 人 ヤ プ ー ), 2002–2006
- Kateikyōshi Jingū Yamamika ( 家庭 教師 神宮 山 美 佳 ), since 2007
Web links
- Profile at Anime News Network (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Egawa, Tatsuya |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 江川 達 也 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese manga artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nagoya , Aichi Prefecture, Japan |