Yūji Iwahara

Yūji Iwahara ( Japanese 岩 原 裕 二 , Iwahara Yūji ; * before 1994 in Memanbetsu , Hokkaidō , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist .

Life

After completing his art studies, he wanted to join a video game company. In the 1990s he sent a manga to the manga magazine Afternoon , for which he received the renowned Shiki Prize in 1994 for a “good work”. In the same year, Hitoshi Ashinano ( Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō ) and Tsutomu Nihei ( Blame! ) Were awarded. He took part again in 1995, as well as in 1996 and 1997. In those years he won the main prize and his works Hebi and Ōkami no Hitomi , which were sent in in 1996 and 1997, were published in October 1996 and in February 1997 also in the afternoon. The next publication, another short story, followed in July 1998 with Tetsu no Seiki in RPG Magazine .

However, he did not publish his first lengthy manga until July 1999, when he published the first chapter of his manga series Koudelka, which is loosely based on a video game, in Ace Next magazine. Koudelka is set in 1899 and tells of a twenty-year-old girl who breaks out of a mental hospital and on the run meets Joshua, who goes with her to London, where strange things happen. Iwahara completed the roughly 500-page manga in September 2000 to devote himself to another project: Chikyū Misaki , which was also published in Ace Next from 2000 to 2001 and, unlike Iwahara's previous work, worked a lot with cuteness, but also some included more serious scenes. The Kadokawa-Shoten- Verlag brought out his three short first publications from 1996 to 1998 as an anthology in 2001.

After the draftsman, who mainly works with the computer for his illustrations, had finished the two series, he switched publishers and drew King of Thorns , his breakthrough in Japan. The fantasy manga, which tells of the threat to mankind from a strange disease and the survival of a small group, is Iwahara's first work to be translated into German. Previously, Chikyu Misaki already in the US and Koudelka published in Italy. During and after the publication of King of Thorns , his longest manga to date with over 900 pages, he repeatedly drew shorter comics for various magazines, such as the two four-page works Hyōchaku buttai X for Champion RED and Yōkoso! Meitō yanagi no yu for Comic Dengeki Daiō and the 32-page Keita no tsuri for Comic Beam . Yuji Iwahara also illustrated video games and novels. Based on Gakuen Sōsei: Nekoten! Which was created for his old publisher Kadokawa Shoten . Dimension W has been published by Square Enix since 2011 . Dimension W has been published by Kazé Manga since April 2016.

Works

• Hebi ( 蛇 ), 1996
• Ōkami no Hitomi ( 狼 の 瞳 ), 1997
• Tetsu no Seiki ( 鉄 の 世紀 ), 1998
• Koudelka ( ク ー デ ル カ , Kūderuka ), 1999–2000
• Chikyū Misaki (地球 美 紗 樹 ), 2001–2002
• King of Thorns (い ば ら の 王 , ibara no ō ), 2002–2005
• Hyōchaku buttai X ( 漂着 物体 X ), 2004
• Yōkoso! Meitō yanagi no yu ( よ う こ そ! 名 湯 柳 の 湯. ), 2005
• Keita no tsuri ( ケ イ タ の 釣 り ), 2006
• Gakuen Sosei: Necotes! ( 学園 創世 猫 天! ), 2006–2008
• Dimension W (デ ィ メ ン シ ョ ン W), 2011–2019

Web links

• Yuji Iwahara on the homepage of Comic Beam magazine at kanshin.jp (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dimension W (Yuji Iwahara). Retrieved September 27, 2016 .