Yoshiki Nakamura

Yoshiki Nakamura ( Japanese 仲 村 佳 樹 , Nakamura Yoshiki ; born June 17th in the 20th century in Tokushima Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist .

Life

She published her first work as a professional manga artist in November 1992 with Love is all in the Hana to Yume Planet Zōkan , a special edition of the manga magazine Hana to Yume .

This was followed by other short stories for Hana to Yume and its sister magazines, all of which are aimed primarily at teenage girls, i.e. publish mangas of the Shōjo genre. In March 1994, the Hakusensha publishing house brought out Nakamura's first book publication, the collection of short stories Yume de au yori suteki , which includes her two debut works in addition to the eponymous manga story. Her first long manga series was titled Hijiri Koi . It appeared in about 110 pages in 1994 in Hana to Yume and later as an anthology. On her next comic series, MVP wa yuzurenai! , she worked until 1996. This already had a volume of 1,300 pages in seven anthologies.

The breakthrough for the illustrator came with Tōkyō Crazy Paradise , which appeared from 1996 to 2001 in over 3,200 pages in Hana to Yume and later in nineteen anthologies. The manga is set in a world where women are severely oppressed. The young protagonist is therefore raised as a boy. Her classmate, a yakuza leader, forces her to play his bodyguard, although as a police daughter she has a very bad opinion of the yakuza. An unusual love story develops.

Since 2002 she has been drawing for Hana to Yume on Skip Beat! , which so far has reached from over 42 volumes. In Skip Beat! The focus is on 16-year-old Kyoko, who goes into show business to get revenge on her childhood friend and former crush, using rather unconventional methods. In 2008 an anime series with 25 episodes was produced for the manga.

Her work is translated into Chinese, Korean, English, French and German, among others.

Works (selection)

• Love is all , 1992
• Ryōte ni tsuki ( 両 手 に ツ キ ), 1993
• Yume de au yori suteki ( 夢 で 会 う よ り 素 敵 ), 1993
• Hijiri Koi ( 聖 恋 ), 1994
• MVP wa yuzurenai! ( MVP は 譲 れ な い! ), 1994-1996
• Tōkyō Crazy Paradise (東京 ク レ イ ジ ー パ ラ ダ イ ス , Tōkyō Kureishī Paradaisu ), 1996-2001
• Blue Wars , 1997-2000
• Skip beat! (ス キ ッ プ ・ ビ ー ト! , Sukippu Bīto! ), Since 2002
• Dramatic Love Album ( 禁 断 の 林檎 - 赤 い 名 前 - , Kindan no Ringo - Akai Namae ), 2002

Web links

• List of all publications by Hakusensha (Japanese)
• Profile of Yoshiki Nakamura on anisearch.de
• Entry at Anime News Network (English)