Yoshitomo Watanabe
Yoshitomo Watanabe ( Japanese 渡 辺 祥 智 , Watanabe Yoshitomo ; born June 25, 1976 in Niigata Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist .
Yoshitomo Watanabe published her first manga as a professional draftswoman in January 1996 with the short story Kepa kepa in the manga magazine LaLa DX , which is aimed at teenage girls and publishes mangas from the Shōjo genre. For this short story she won the LMG Gold Debut Shō , an award for outstanding first works. She drew a few more short mangas for LaLa DX until 1997.
The over 900 pages long fantasy manga Gin no Yūsha was her first long work and was published in LaLa from 1997 to 2000 , for which Masami Tsuda Kare Kano and Reiko Shimizu, among others, also drew Princess Kaguya at that time . It was followed by the 700-page Fun Fun Factory , which is about a high school student trying to get rid of the wicked witch who takes possession of her when she eats a dessert. Fun Fun Factory was very successful in Japan, it was first published from 2000 to 2002, also in LaLa.
Since September 2003 Watanabe has been working on Futaba's (highly) strange journey , for the first time not for the Hakusensha publishing house, which publishes LaLa and all the anthologies of her earlier manga, but for Mag Garden . This publisher publishes Comic Blade , a magazine for which many female cartoonists draw comics for a predominantly male audience. In Futaba's (highly) strange journey , the author tells of a primary school student who meets a girl from another world and opens a door to this world through her cell phone. This manga will be translated into English and German, among others.
In September 2005 Mag Garden published an art book under the title Kirara with many illustrations by Watanabe about her manga, especially about Futaba's (highly) strange journey . She has also been working on Karatto since 2006 for the manga magazine Comic Blade Zebel , a sister magazine to Comic Blade . .
Works (selection)
- Kepa Kepa ( け ぱ け ぱ ), 1996
- Gin no Yūsha ( 銀 の 勇者 ), 1997-2000
- Fun Fun Factory ( fivefun 工房 , fivefun Kōbō ), 2000–2002
- Futaba's (highly) strange journey (そ の 向 こ う の 向 こ う 側 , Sono Mukō no Mukōgawa ), since 2003
- Karatto! ( か ら っ と! ), Since 2006
Web links
- List of all publications up to May 2003 (Japanese)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Watanabe, Yoshitomo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 渡 辺 祥 智 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese manga artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Niigata Prefecture , Japan |