Yuki Urushibara

Yuki Urushibara ( Japanese 漆 原 友 紀 , Urushibara Yuki ; actually 吉 山 友 紀 Yoshiyama Yuki ; born January 23, 1974 in Yamaguchi Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist whose works can be assigned to his genus. According to their own statement, a common theme in their works is the “ riddle of existence ”.

biography

For the first time in middle school she drew comics, at that time still parodies of well-known works. She published her first manga as a professional illustrator under her real name in Bouquet , a manga magazine for teenage girls ( Shōjo ), and under the pseudonym Soyogo Shima ( 志摩 冬青 , Shima Soyogo ) in the anime magazine Fanroad .

After completing her studies in 1998, the illustrator sent Afternoon magazine a short story entitled Mushishi , for which she won the Afternoon Shiki Prize . When the short manga was then published in the afternoon , she decided to expand this short story into a long manga series. From 1999, a revised version of appeared Mushishi at a sister magazine of the afternoon , in the Afternoon Season Zokan , even in the same time, among other Hitoshi Ashinanos position was published. After Afternoon Season Zōkan was discontinued in 2002, Mushishi switched to Afternoon, where the manga was a great success and continues to appear. The manga already has over 1,500 pages, is translated into English, among other things, and sold over 2.5 million copies in Japan by 2006. Mushishi , who won the 2003 Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award and the Kōdansha Manga Prize in 2006, is about a white-haired man with only one eye who helps people with mushi problems , beings neither animal nor animal vegetable nature. Mushishi was implemented as an anime television series and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo as a real film.

In September 2004, the Kōdansha publishing house, where Urushibara publishes all of her works, brought out the paperback Filament ( フ ィ ラ メ ン ト , Firamento ) with several of her short stories. In addition to the first version of Mushishi , the volume also includes the two works Meikyū Neko and Misaki de Bus o orita Hito . In Meikyū Neko , a girl gets lost in a huge residential complex that is almost like a labyrinth and meets a cat who is said to help all those who get lost in the complex. Misaki de Bus o orita Hito is set on the coast of a peninsula where a family has had a small shop for generations. The current owner wants to close the shop and remembers her childhood when many people came to the coast by bus to throw themselves down the cliffs.

In addition to the scenery of the Seto Inland Sea , where she grew up, she was also influenced by the manga artist Daisuke Igarashi .

Works (selection)

• Mushishi (蟲 師 ), since 1999
• Yuki no Kan ( 雪 の 冠 )
• Kaseki no Ie ( 化石 の 家 )
• Shōkei Zatsu Tobari ( 小 景 雑 帳 )
• Meikyū Neko ( 迷宮 猫 )
• Misaki de Bus o orita Hito ( 岬 で バ ス を 降 り た ひ と ), 2004

Web links

• List of all paperback publications by Kodansha (Japanese)

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1. ↑ ^{a b c} Interview at the Japanese Media Arts Festival ( Memento from December 24, 2005 in the Internet Archive )