Yumiko Igarashi

Yumiko Igarashi (2011)

Yumiko Igarashi ( Japanese い が ら し ゆ み こ , also: 五十 嵐 優美 子 , both Igarashi Yumiko ; born August 26, 1950 in Asahikawa , Hokkaidō ) is a Japanese manga artist .

biography

Early career

During her school days, she attended a six-month manga drawing course. Osamu Tezuka and Shōtarō Ishinomori were her inspirations. Two friends of Igarashi's classmates who were already established mangaka - Waki Yamato and Yōkō Tadatsu - showed an unfinished comic from their pen to their publisher. When the publisher advised her to finish the comic and then send it to her, the desire to work as a manga artist grew stronger.

She finally published her first comic as a professional draftsman in 1968 with Shiroi Same no iru Shima (translated "The island of the white shark") in a special edition of Ribon , a manga magazine for girls ( Shōjo ) published by Shūeisha . Initially she signed her works with the stage name Hitomi Igakishi, but after the publication she published fewer works under her real name.

In the 1970s she moved to the Kōdansha publishing house, where she published mainly in Nakayoshi magazine, for which she created titles such as Atsuko no Ashita wa and Banzai-sensei .

Success in the 1970s and 1980s

The breakthrough came with the manga series Candy Candy , on which she worked for Nakayoshi from 1975 to 1979 together with the scenarioist Kyōko Mizuki . Candy Candy is her longest work with a length of around 1700 pages in originally nine anthologies and her most successful work in Japan with over thirteen million copies sold. The manga, which also resulted in a 112-part anime adaptation and for which Igarashi won the Kōdansha Manga Prize in 1977 , is about an American girl who was sent to an orphanage, where she finds friends and her first love learns. After the completion of Candy Candy , Nakayoshi had more mangas from her, such as the series Mayme Angel , set in the Wild West , and Tim Tim Circus , again with Kyōko Mizuki, about a young trapeze artist.

With Georgie! , this time in collaboration with Man Izawa , she had another success. This series, which was filmed as an animated series like Candy Candy , appeared from 1982 to 1984 in about 800 pages in the Shōjo comic magazine of the Shōgakukan publishing house and then in five edited volumes. The manga is about the childhood and youth of the eponymous girl on a farm in Australia. With Izawa, she created after Georgie! Mangas like Twinkle Star 2 . Igarashi alone created the three anthologies comprehensive series Anne wa Anne for Kōdansha.

Together with Kaoru Kurimoto , the Yuri manga Paros no Ken (translated "Sword of Paros") about the homosexual love of two young women was created for Asuka magazine .

Ladies' comics

Since the late 1980s, Igarashi no longer specializes in mangas for girls and young people, but in adult women and uses them to draw so-called ladies' comics or Josei manga. For these works she no longer writes her name in hiragana , as in her works for a younger readership , but in Kanji . Magazines she worked for in the 1990s include Loving , Comic Val, and Silky . Especially the comics, which were created in collaboration with the scenario artist Fumiko Shiba , were successful (including Joō Seiten - Reine and Papa wa Okama-san ).

In the 1990s, the illustrator also made comics from some of the classics of Western literature - Lev Tolstoy's Anna Karenina , William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary, as well as Lyman Frank Baums The Wizard of Oz , Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne on Green Gables and Johanna Spyris Heidi for a younger target group. The implementation of Anne on Green Gables is the longest and best known with five books.

The Ōzora Shuppan publishing house has been bringing out manga versions of trivial novels by the American Harlequin publishing house since 1998 . Igarashi has been involved in this movement since the 2000s.

Copyright controversy

In the 1990s, Igarashi was negative in the media because both Kyōko Mizuki and Man Izawa accused her of the copyright of Candy Candy and Georgie! to assert for himself alone. Georgie's copyright management ! is said to have transferred the draftsman to her company I-Pro and awarded 80% of the profit to themselves and only 20% to Izawa, while both had received half of the profit when the rights were still with Shogakukan. In foreign editions of Georgie! The cover picture only showed Igarashi's name, not Izawa's co-authorship. Izawa sued the illustrator and won the several years' lawsuit on October 21, 2001.

Works (selection)

• Shiroi Same no iru Shima ( 白 い 鮫 の い る 島 ), 1968
• Atsuko no Ashita wa ( 敦 子 の あ し た は ), 1974
• Banzai-sensei ( バ ン ザ イ 先生 ), 1975
• Candy Candy (キ ャ ン デ ィ ・ キ ャ ン デ ィ ), 1975–1979 (together with Kyōko Mizuki)
• Mayme Angel ( メ イ ミ ー ・ エ ン ジ ェ ル ), 1979–1981
• Tim Tim Circus ( テ ィ ム ▽ テ ィ ム ▽ サ ー カ ス ), 1981–1981 (together with Kyōko Mizuki)
• Georgie! (ジ ョ ー ジ ィ! ), 1982–1984 (together with Man Izawa)
• Koronde Pockle ( こ ろ ん で ポ ッ ク ル ), 1982–1983
• Magical Mami ( ま じ か る マ ミ ー )
• Twinkle Star 2 ( テ ィ ン ク ル ・ ス タ ー ), 1984
• Anne wa Anne ( ア ン は ア ン ), 1985–1986
• Paros no Ken ( パ ロ ス の 剣 ), 1986–1987 (together with Kaoru Kurimoto)
• Totteoki no Seishun ( と っ て お き の 青春 ), 1988
• Nidome no Sayonara ( 二度 目 の さ よ な ら ), 1989 (together with Man Izawa)
• Sey Talk , 1990 (with Fumiko Shiba)
• Tonari no Otoko ( 隣 の 男 ), 1991 (together with Fumiko Shiba)
• Joō Seiten - Reine ( 女 王聖典 - レ イ ヌ - ), 1991–1992 (together with Fumiko Shiba)
• Papa wa Okama-san ( パ パ は オ カ マ さ ん ), 1993–1994 (together with Fumiko Shiba)
• Muka Muka Paradise ( ム カ ム カ パ ラ ダ イ ス ), 1993–1994 (together with Fumiko Shiba)
• Romeo to Juliette ( ロ ミ オ と ジ ュ リ エ ッ ト ), 1995 (based on William Shakespeare)
• Bird-sensei wa sugoi rashii ( バ ー ド 先生 は す ご い ら し い ), 1996–1997
• Shishi Katei wa Kiki Ippatsu ( 子 子 家庭 は 危機 一 髪 ), 1997 (after Jirō Akagawa )
• Anna Karenina ( ア ン ナ ・ カ レ ー ニ ナ ), 1997 (based on Lev Tolstoy )
• Madame Bovary ( ポ ヴ ァ リ ー 夫人 ), 1997 (after Gustave Flaubert)
• Akage no Anne ( 赤 毛 の ア ン ), 1997–1998 (after Lucy Maud Montgomery)
• Oz no Mahōtsukai ( オ ズ の 魔法 使 い ), 1998 (after Lyman Frank Baum)
• Suzuran ( す ず ら ん ), 1999
• Daisy May ( デ イ ジ ー ・ メ イ ), 2003 (after Emma Darcy )
• Otona ni naru made ( 大人 に な る ま で ), 2003 (based on Ray Michaels )
• Oyome Samba ( お ヨ メ ・ サ ン バ ), 2003
• Princess ni Oteage ( プ リ ン セ ス に お 手上 げ ), 2004 (after Carla Cassidy )

Web links

• Yumiko Igarashi's website (Japanese)
• old, official website ( Memento from June 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Japanese)
• Website of a museum on Yumiko Igarashi (Japanese)
• Entry in the Anime News Network (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://comipress.com/article/2006/05/24/161