Yasuhiro Nightow
Yasuhiro Nightow ( Japanese 内藤 泰 弘 , Naitō Yasuhiro ; born April 8, 1967 in Yokohama , Kanagawa Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist .
Life
He studied social science at Hōsei University and created amateur comics ( Dōjinshi ) while studying . At the age of 26, he gave up his job at Sekisui House to devote himself entirely to drawing comics.
He published his first comic as a professional draftsman in 1994 with Call XXX in the manga magazine Super Jump . This was followed by the series Samurai Spirits ( サ ム ラ イ ス ピ リ ッ ツ ) based on the video game of the same name for Family Computer Magazine .
Nightow's best-known work is Trigun ( ト ラ イ ガ ン ), which he published in 1995 in the Shōnen Captain magazine at Tokuma-Shoten- Verlag. Influenced by American comics, the manga takes place in an area similar to the Wild West , in which the main character Vash wants to keep peace between people without the use of weapons and causes some chaos in the process. When the Shōnen Captain was set in 1997, Trigun had to switch to another magazine; since then the manga appeared under the title Trigun Maximum ( ト ラ イ ガ ン マ キ シ マ ム ) in the magazine Young King Ours at Shōnen Gahōsha until it ended after ten years in 2007. The Trigun series has published a total of 17 anthologies. The manga was implemented as an anime television series in 1998 and translated into French, English, Spanish, Italian, German and Portuguese.
Following this, Kekkai Sensen ( 血 界 戦 線 , also Blood Blockade Battlefront ) started in Jump Square in 2009 and after three editions in 2010 switched to Jump SQ.19 , which was discontinued in February 2015. In 2015 the manga was also adapted as an anime series .
He has also been the character designer for several video games and animes, such as Gungrave and Ōedo Rocket .
Web links
- Interview with Yasuhiro Nightow ( Memento from February 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Masanao Amano, Julius Wiedemann (ed.): Manga Design . Taschen Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-8228-2591-3 , p. 374.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nightow, Yasuhiro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 内藤 泰 弘 (Japanese); Naitō, Yasuhiro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese manga artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yokohama , Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan |