Yumi Hotta
Yumi Hotta ( Japanese ほ っ た ゆ み , Hotta Yumi , real name: 堀 田 由 美 ; born October 15, 1957 in Aichi , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist and author. Her greatest success is Hikaru no Go .
Life
She published her first manga in 1985 with her husband in the manga magazine Manga Time Family , which specializes in Yonkoma manga. In 1987 she won an award from Big Comic magazine. She then wrote some manga about horse racing for his and Josei magazines.
At the end of the 1990s, she presented the Shueisha publishing house with a story about teenage Go players. She was enthusiastically received. The publisher was able to win Takeshi Obata as a draftsman for the story. In 1999, Hikaru no Go started in Shōnen Jump magazine. The manga was already a great success after a short time, was filmed into an anime series, translated into numerous languages, won the Shogakukan Manga Prize and the Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize and triggered a Go “boom” in Japan.
Her second manga for Shōnen Jump magazine, Yūto , is about speed skaters. However, Yūto could not connect to the success of Hikaru no Go .
Works
- Hikaru no Go (ヒ カ ル の 碁 ), 1999–2003, together with Takeshi Obata
- Yūto ( ユ ー ト ), 2005, together with Kei Kawano
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hotta, Yumi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 堀 田 由 美 (Japanese); ほ っ た ゆ み (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese manga artist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aichi , Japan |