Tōko Mizuno

Tōko Mizuno ( Japanese 水 野 十 子 , Mizuno Tōko ; born August 7, 19xx in Tokushima , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator .

She published her first manga as a professional illustrator with the 16-page short story Himegimi to Ken (Eng. "The Princess and the Sword") in the May issue of the manga magazine LaLa DX , for which she won the 39th LMS Diamond Rookie Sho received, an award for outstanding young draftsmen. In the following November issue of the magazine her second work appeared, the 32-page Esendōjo Ejōshi , for which she, like Matsuri Hino , won the ninth LMG Gold Debut Shō .

In the following years she drew other short works for Lunatic LaLa , LaLa DX and LaLa . In December 1999 she started her first lengthy manga, In A Distant Time . The manga, which is based on a Playstation video game for which she designed the characters, is about a young person in Kyoto in 2000 who, together with two classmates, is transported back to the 11th century, the Heian period , and there the To protect people from demons. In A Distant Time or in the original Harukanaru Toki no Naka de appeared in LaLa until October 2006, for which Masami Tsuda and Reiko Shimizu worked at the same time , was filmed several times as an anime and has been translated into German, among other things. The comic, which is aimed at young girls and can therefore be assigned to the Shōjo genre, comprises over 1,800 pages in twelve anthologies so far. In 2003 she published an art book on In A Distant Time .

Her manga series Ōsama Game started in the January 2007 issue of LaLa .

Works (selection)

• Himegimi to Ken ( 姫 君 と 剣 ), 1995
• Esendōjo Ejōshi ( 画 仙道 女 画 娘子 ), 1995
• In A Distant Time (遙 か な る 時空 の 中 で , Harukanaru Toki no Naka de ), 1999-2006
• Ōsama Game ( 王 様 ゲ ー ム , Ōsama Gēmu ), since 2007

Web links

• List of all manga publications (Japanese)
• Profile of Tōko Mizuno on anisearch.de