Yoshinori Natsume

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Yoshinori Natsume in May 2006

Yoshinori Natsume ( Japanese 夏 目 義 徳 , Natsume Yoshinori ; born August 23, 1975 in Hiroshima , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist .

biography

After graduating from high school, Natsume studied at Chiba Daigaku . He then worked for the video game company Konami for a short time and turned to manga drawing in 1994. He published his first work in 1994 with the short story Dunk Shot wa daasete nai keredo in the Shōnen Sunday manga magazine of the Shogakukan publishing house, for which he also worked in the following years. In 1995 he won the 36th Newcomer Prize of Shogakukan Publishing in the Shōnen category .

Natsume's first ongoing series only began in 2001 with the action manga Togari about a criminal who is freed from hell if he manages to destroy 108 sins in 108 days with the Togari sword. The illustrator completed the manga, which was very successful in Japan and which appeared in Shōnen Sunday alongside mangas such as Inu Yasha and Detective Conan and was also published in several other Asian countries and in France, abruptly in 2002 after more than 1,400 pages had been drawn.

In 2004 he started Kurozakuro , which is about a shy youngster who receives supernatural powers that normally cause him to turn into a monster. The more than 1200 page Kurozakuro ended in December 2005.

In spring 2008 he brought out a four-part comic series on the superhero Batman for the American publisher DC Comics under the title Batman: Death Mask . The project had been suggested to him when he was looking for a Togari publisher in the United States .

Works (selection)

  • Dunk Shot wa utenai keredo ( ダ ン ク シ ュ ー ト は 打 て な い け れ ど ), 1994
  • Togari (ト ガ リ ), 2001–2002
  • Kurozakuro (ク ロ ザ ク ロ ), 2004–2005
  • Batman: Death Mask , 2008

Web links

Commons : Yoshinori Natsume  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Kai-Ming Cha: A Japanese Manga-Ka Takes on Batman , Publishers Weekly , June 3, 2008