Tsutomu Takahashi

Tsutomu Takahashi ( Japanese 高橋 ツ ト ム , Takahashi Tsutomu ; born September 20, 1965 in Tokyo Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist .

Life

In 1987, Takahashi took part in a competition organized by the Manga magazine Morning , in which young draftsmen were sought for the new Afternoon magazine. He won it and was one of the first winners of the Afternoon Shiki Prize . The draftsman then had the opportunity to study with Kaiji Kawaguchi as an assistant and finally publish his first work as a professional draftsman - the short story Jiraishin was published in 1989 in Morning .

In 1992, he began drawing Jiraishin for Afternoon magazine as a sequel story. By 2000 the manga appeared in over 4,000 pages in this magazine, the Kōdansha publishing house also published the manga in 19 books. Jiraishin , which was nominated for the Kōdansha Manga Prize in 1999, is a serious series about the detective Kyoya Iida, who works for the police in Shinjuku and investigates numerous cases. Jiraishin is Takahashi's longest work to date.

Since 1997 Takahashi has been working for a second publisher, Shūeisha . For his Young Jump magazine, he created the short stories 69 and Route 69 in 1997 and 1999 and the series Alive in 1999 , which was filmed in 2002 under the direction of Ryūhei Kitamuras . Alive describes a serial killer who agrees to take part in an experiment to avoid the death penalty. For Young Jump , the mangaka also drew the series Sky High , for which a film of the same name was made in 2003, again with Kitamura as director, and the sequels to this and the three-book manga Blue Heaven , in which a man on the world's largest luxury ship causing a massacre.

From 2000 to 2002 he created the Tetsuwan Girl comic series, comprising around 1,600 pages in nine anthologies, about a women's baseball team in post-war Japan for Morning Magazine . In the afternoon since 2002 his series appears Bakuon retto for Young Jump he draws since 2005 Sidooh .

In 2005, Takahashi co- directed the feature film Ichigo no kakera ( 苺 の 破 片 ) with Shun Nakahara . This is about the manga artist Ichigo Nekota, who falls into alcoholism because she hasn't had a big hit comic for twelve years.

His work, which consists exclusively of his manga aimed primarily at adult men , has been translated into French, English, Spanish, Korean, Italian and Thai. An excerpt from Jiraishin played in Hamburg in two volumes, which was created in collaboration with Matz Mainka , was published in 1995 in German-speaking countries by Carlsen Verlag .

Shūhō Satō ( Black Jack ni Yoroshiku ) and Tsutomu Nihei ( Blame! ) Were his assistants for a while.

Works

• Jiraishin (地 雷震 ), 1989, 1992-2000
• 69 , 1997
• Tenshi no Wakamae ( 天使 の わ け ま え ), 1998 (together with Gō Ohinata )
• Alive , 1999
• Route 69 , 1999
• Tetsuwan Girl (鉄 腕 ガ ー ル , tetsuwan gāru ), 2000–2002
• Sky High (ス カ イ ハ イ , sukaihai ), 2001–2002
• Blue Heaven , 2002-2003
• Bakuon Rettō (爆 音 列島 ), since 2002
• Sky High Karma ( ス カ イ ハ イ ・ カ ル マ , sukaihai karuma ), 2003
• 7 Games , 2003
• Sky High Shinshō ( ス カ イ ハ イ ・ 新 章 , sukaihai shinshō ), 2003
• Sidooh ( SIDOOH- 士 道 , shidō ), since 2005
• Sky High 4 ( ス カ イ ハ イ 4 , sukaihai 4 ), since 2005
• Dead Flowers , 2005 (as 猫 田 イ チ ゴ, Nekota Ichigo )

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jiraishin at the German Comic Guide