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Akira Toriyama鳥山明alternative words: Toriyama Akira keywords: author , dr. slump , dragon ball , manga related topics: Dragon Ball , Dr. Slump explanation: Born April 5, 1955 in Aichi Prefecture near Nagoya City. He began his career by publishing "Wonder Island" but especially "Dr. Slump", the tale of a crazy scientific in "Shonen Jump". After a hit of the latter, he published in the same magazine "Dragon Ball", a kind of karate comedy, of which success in the world, especially in France, is notorious. Probably, he should be the most popular mangaka because the sales of his books has surpassed 100 millions in the world. ClampＣｌａｍｐkeywords: author , clamp , manga related topics: Tokyo Babylon , Magic Knight Rayearth , Card captor Sakura related web sites: http://www.clamp-net.com , http://www.cypress.ne.jp/rinamon/ , http://www5.airnet.ne.jp/skyfork/clamp/ , http://www.interq.or.jp/venus/sing/hinata.html , http://www2j.biglobe.ne.jp/~clamp/top.htm explanation: Collective pen name of 4 female mangakas who work together in Kansai region since the epoch of Doujinshi. They are Nanase Ohkawa who is the leader, Satsuki Igarashi, Appapa Mokona and Mick Nekoi. Their main works are "Magic Knight Rayearth", "Tokyo Babylon". Fujiko Fujio藤子不二夫alternative words: Fujio Fujiko keywords: author , doraemon , manga related topics: Doraemon related web sites: http://www.fujiko-pro.co.jp/fworld/ , http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~comefx99/fujiko.htm , http://www.mlexp.com/fujiko/ , http://www.tky.3web.ne.jp/~egg/ffml/ explanation: Collective pen name of 2 Japanese mangaka, Motoo Abiko and Hiroshi Fujimoto. They have been friends since the primary school. Sometimes they work together like in Obakeno Q and sometimes separately like in Doraemon written by Hiroshi Fujimoto. For the latter case, in order to distinguish them individually, the initial of each author should be added like Fujiko Fujio A. for the first and Fujiko F. Fujio for the second, who died in 1999. Fujio Akatsuka赤塚不二夫alternative words: Akatsuka Fujio keywords: author , manga related topics: Osomatsukun , Shonen Sunday related web sites: http://www.villagecenter.co.jp/soft/akatuka_prof.html explanation: Born in Manchuria on September 14, 1935, he returned back to Japan after WWII. He was a resident of the famous dormitory for mangaka, Tokiwaso in Tokyo. He had published many manga for small publishers and dojinshi but his first hit came from Osomatsukun, a gag around young sextuplets, on Shonen Sunday in April 1962. "Himitsu no Akkochan" published on Ribon was another hit. Though virtually unknown outside Japan, he has been one of the most influential mangaka of 60s and 70s. Go Nagai永井豪alternative words: Nagai Go, Gou Nagai, Nagai Gou keywords: author , manga related topics: UFO robot Grendizer related web sites: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~WX5H-KTB/gotop.html explanation: Born on September 6, 1945 at Wajima on the shore of Japan Sea, he is one the most genius mangakas in Japanese post-war period: already in 70s he had begun to handle the subjects, considered taboo at that epoch, like sex, violence, outrageous gags. He is also an excellent science fiction writer such as "UFO robot Grendizer". Otherwise, we can quote as his main works, "Harenchi Gakuen" and "Devil Man". Hayao Miyazaki宮崎駿alternative words: Miyazaki Hayao keywords: anime , author , director related topics: Studio Ghibli , Nausicaa of the valley of wind , My neighbor Totoro , Kiki's Delivery Service , Porco Rosso , Princess Mononoke related web sites: http://www.yk.rim.or.jp/~rst/index.shtml explanation: Born on January 5, 1941 in Tokyo, this talented producer of anime and manga began his career in Toei Doga (now Toei Animation) as an anime assistant in 1963. After having climbed all the rungs of the production, he founded an own company, " Studio Ghibli" in 1985. His main works are: Nausicaa of the valley of wind (1984), My neighbor Totoro (1988), Kiki's Delivery Service (1989), Porco Rosso (1992) and Princess Mononoke (1997). Katsuhiro Otomo大友克洋alternative words: Otomo Katsuhiro, Katsuhiro Ootomo, Ootomo Katsuhiro keywords: anime , author , director , manga related topics: Akira related web sites: http://www.interq.or.jp/blue/junya/ , http://www.beyond-c.co.jp , http://www.mediaworks.co.jp/alt/000/text/o.html explanation: Born on April 14, 1954 in Miyagi prefecture. He began his carrier with "Gurn report", an adaptation of Merimee's short novel. First, his works became popular among manga maniacs thanks to detailed description of scenery. Then, with an influence of French author, Mebius, his works leaned more toward SF manga such as Fireball , Domu, Apple paradise. His fame became definitive thanks to a futurist manga, Akira, published on "Young Magazine" of Kodansha from 1982 to 1990. Kazuo Umezu楳図かずおalternative words: Umezu Kazuo, Umezu keywords: author , manga related topics: Rental book , Shonen Sunday , Drifting School related web sites: http://www.kanazawa-bidai.ac.jp/~hangyo/hobby/ , http://www15.freeweb.ne.jp/play/jikuta/ , http://www.jah.ne.jp/~oshi/hyokyo/index.shtml explanation: Born on September 3, 1936 in Wakayama, he has become the best author of horror manga. A legend says he wrote the portrait of a visiting person when he was alone to let understand his parents at the age of 3. After written a great number of horror manga for rental books, he has passed to manga magazines: "Snake girl" (Hebi shojo) in 1966 for Shojo Friend, "Drifting school" (Hyoryu Kyoshitsu) in 1972-1974, Watashi wa Shingo in 1982-1986 for Shonen Sunday. Kosuke Fujishima藤島康介alternative words: Kousuke Fujishima, Fujishima Kosuke, Fujishima Kousuke keywords: author , manga related topics: Ah! Goddess explanation: Born July 7, 1964, this Japanese mangaka began his career in a weekly magazine, "Shukan Morning" with "Making be free". As his main works, we can quote "Taiho Shichauzo" (I will arrest you) and "Ah! Goddess". Leiji Matsumoto松本零士alternative words: Matsumoto Leiji, Reiji Matsumoto, Matsumoto Reiji keywords: anime , author , manga related topics: Captain Harlock , Space Battleship Yamato , Galaxy Express 999 related web sites: http://www.leiji-matsumoto.ne.jp , http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~neyan/emeraldas/eme4_3.htm , http://www.nasu-net.or.jp/~kid/COMIC/reiji2.html , http://www.bellcity.ne.jp/~wild7/reiji/reiji.html , http://arcadia2000.free.fr/arcadiaf.htm explanation: Born January 25, 1938 in Fukuoka, this precocious mangaka had already begun to publish at the age of 19 in a monthly magazine "Shojo". By its writing style, his works should be better suitable for anime screen than on paper, for he has realized 3 great hits in that domain. They are in chronological order, "Space Battleship Yamato" (1974), "Galaxy Express 999" (1977) and "Captain Harlock" (1978). Page number: 1 2 3 26 articles extracted from postgresql database. | |
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