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Japan Cartoonists Association
The , established April 1, 2014, is a Japanese public interest incorporated association and professional association of manga artists. Its predecessor was a voluntary organization of the same name founded on December 15, 1964. As of November 2020, the president is Machiko Satonaka, and the executive directors are Ken Akamatsu, Ippongi Bang, Takahiro Ozawa "Ume", Miso Suzuki, Noriko Nagano, Mitsuru Miura, and George Morikawa. In addition, the former chairman of the board of directors, Tetsuya Chiba, was appointed chairman. Overview The main purpose of the association is "to conduct business related to the dissemination of manga, to encourage creation of manga, to promote manga worldwide, and to contribute to the development of Japanese culture". The organization also organizes and co-sponsors local manga exhibitions and sponsors the Japan Cartoonists Association Awards. The association's offices were located in the "Gingaku Building" in Ginza, Tokyo, from its establishment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manga Artist
A is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. As of 2006, about 3,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan. Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist before entering the industry as a primary creator. More rarely a manga artist breaks into the industry directly, without previously being an assistant. For example, Naoko Takeuchi, author of '' Sailor Moon'', won a Kodansha Manga Award contest and manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka was first published while studying an unrelated degree, without working as an assistant. A manga artist will rise to prominence through recognition of their ability when they spark the interest of institutions, individuals or a demographic of manga consumers. For example, there are contests which prospective manga artist may enter, sponsored by manga editors and publishers. This can also be accomplished through producing a one-shot. While sometimes a stand-alone manga, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Machiko Satonaka
is a Japanese manga artist. She made her professional debut in 1964 during her second year of high school with the one-shot ''Pia no Shōzō'' ("Portrait of Pia"). She has since created nearly 500 manga in a variety of genres. Two of her most notable works are ''Ashita Kagayaku'' ("Tomorrow Will Shine"), which won the 1974 Kodansha Publishing Culture Award, and '' Karyūdo no Seiza'' ("Constellation of the Hunter"), which won the 1982 Kodansha Manga Award. In addition to creating manga, Satonaka teaches at the Osaka University of Arts as the head of the Character Creative Arts Department and serves on the board of various manga-related organizations in Japan. Early life Machiko Satonaka was born on 24 January 1948 in Osaka, Japan. As a child, her elementary school banned students from reading manga such as ''Astro Boy'' because of its violent and unscientific content; her teachers even burned manga in front of her class. Satonaka—who admired the works of Osamu Tezuka, Shota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Akamatsu
is a Japanese manga artist and politician who has served since 2022 as a member of the House of Councillors. He made his professional manga debut in 1993, and is best known as the author of ''Love Hina'' (1998–2001) and ''Negima! Magister Negi Magi'' (2003–2012), both serialized in ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine''; a sequel to ''Negima!'', ''UQ Holder!'', was serialized from 2013 to 2022. In 2011, Akamatsu founded J-Comi (now Manga Library Z), a free digital distributor of out-of-print manga. Akamatsu has been a managing director of the Japan Cartoonists Association since 2018, and is a vocal advocate for protecting freedom of expression in manga and anime from expansions in censorship and copyright law. In the 2022 Japanese House of Councillors election, he won a seat as a candidate for the Liberal Democratic Party in the national proportional representation block on a free expression platform, becoming the first manga creator in the National Diet. Early life Ken Akamatsu w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ippongi Bang
is a multimedia and manga artist,. She has been called "one of the most well-known manga artists in America in the mid-1990s." Life and career Ippongi was born in Yokohama City, and attended Den-En Chofu Hikiba High School, then Tamagawa University Dept. of Agriculture, and worked on a farm. She made her manga debut as a schoolgirl in 1983 with ''Bang's Campus Diary'' in the cult magazine ''Fanroad''. The manga depicted semi-autobiographical details from her life, including her experiences at the agricultural college. As she progressed in her career, she became known as a flamboyant personality who was involved in bikini modeling, cosplay and dressing as manga characters such as Rumiko Takahashi's Lum. Along with several friends, she started up a manga collective called "Studio Do-Do" and several of their works were translated and published in the United States in the 1990s by Antarctic Press. Ippongi, who had once been an exchange student in the United States and was familiar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitsuru Miura
is a Japanese manga artist from Yokohama. He is best known for the series ''The Kabocha Wine'', which was adapted as an anime television series, and for which he received the 1983 Kodansha Manga Award for '' shōnen''. Career Miura’s career took off in 1971, while he was attending Isogo Technical High School. In that year, he won Weekly Shōnen Jump’s Young Jump Award for . After graduating high school, he went on to be an assistant at Tezuka Productions. Soon after in 1973, he won an Honorable Mention in the 6th Tezuka Award for his series , and another Honorable Mention in 9th Tezuka Award in 1975 for his series . In 1980, Miura wrote a one-off manga called that released in Weekly Shōnen Magazine. This short story soon evolved into his most popular manga series, The Kabocha Wine, running from 1981 to 1984, containing 18 volumes, and a 95-episode anime series released by Toei Animation, airing from July 5th, 1982 until August 25th, 1984. He credits the inspiration for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Morikawa
is a Japanese manga author known for the long-running series ''Hajime no Ippo.'' Born in Tokyo, Morikawa was inspired to become a manga artist upon reading Tetsuya Chiba's ''Harris no Kaze'' in elementary school. He was previously an assistant to Shuichi Shigeno, while known mangaka Kentaro Miura and Kaori Saki were past assistants to him. '' Hajime no Ippo'', as of March 2022, has released 134 tankōbon volumes. It has been adapted into several anime series, the first of which began airing in 2000 and was produced by Madhouse studio. The first series contains 76 episodes, while the second series, which started in 2009, contains 26. The third series, named ''Hajime no Ippo: Rising'', was produced in 2013 and contains 25 episodes. Morikawa won the Kodansha Manga Award in 1991 for ''Hajime no Ippo''. He is also the owner of JB Sports Gym in Tokyo. Works * (1983) * (1986) (2 volumes) * (1986) (2 volumes) * (1989-ongoing, Kodansha is a Japanese privately-held publishing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetsuya Chiba
is a Japanese manga artist famous for his sports stories. Chiba's works include ''Ashita no Joe'', his best known work, and ''Notari Matsutarō''. Many of his early titles are still in print due to continued popularity. Life He was born in Chuo, Tokyo, Japan, but lived most of his early childhood in Shenyang, Liaoning when northeast China was colonized by Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War. His father was working in a paper factory when they lived in China. At the end of the Sino-Japanese War, Chiba's family lived in the attic of a work-acquaintance of his father until they could find a way to get back to Japan. Two of his younger brothers are manga artists: Akio Chiba, and Shigeyuki Chiba who is almost completely unknown outside Japan, despite writing many popular sports manga in Japan. Shigeyuki Chiba works under the pen name Taro Nami. In 1950, while in elementary school, he made a manga club with his friends. He created his first official manga, ''Fukushu no Semush ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan Cartoonists Association Awards
is an annual award for manga, sponsored by the Japan Cartoonists Association. The prize was first awarded in 1972. Prizes Recipients of the Grand Prize receive a gold plaque, a medal, and a cash prize of ¥500,000. Recipients of the Excellence Prize receive a silver plaque, a medal, and a cash prize of ¥200,000. Recipients of the Special Award receive the same items as the winner(s) of the Grand Prize. Recipients See also * List of manga awards This list of manga awards is an index to articles about notable awards for manga, comics or graphic novels created in Japan or using the Japanese language and conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century. Awards See als ... References External links Japanese official website {{Manga Industry Awards Manga awards Awards established in 1972 Comics awards 1972 establishments in Japan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ginza, Tokyo
Ginza ( ; ja, 銀座 ) is a district of Chūō, Tokyo, located south of Yaesu and Kyōbashi, west of Tsukiji, east of Yūrakuchō and Uchisaiwaichō, and north of Shinbashi. It is a popular upscale shopping area of Tokyo, with numerous internationally renowned department stores, boutiques, restaurants and coffeehouses located in its vicinity. It is considered to be one of the most expensive, elegant, and luxurious city districts in the world. Ginza was a part of the old Kyobashi ward of Tokyo City, which, together with Nihonbashi and Kanda, formed the core of Shitamachi, the original downtown center of Edo (Tokyo). History Ginza was built upon a former swamp that was filled in during the 16th century. The name Ginza comes after the establishment of a silver-coin mint established there in 1612, during the Edo period. After a devastating fire in 1872 burned down most of the area, the Meiji government designated the Ginza area as a "model of modernization." The governme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinjuku, Tokyo
is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. It is a major commercial and administrative centre, housing the northern half of the busiest railway station in the world ( Shinjuku Station) and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, the administration centre for the government of Tokyo. As of 2018, the ward has an estimated population of 346,235, and a population density of 18,232 people per km2. The total area is 18.23 km2. Since the end of the Second World War, Shinjuku has been a major secondary center of Tokyo ( ''fukutoshin''), rivaling to the original city center in Marunouchi and Ginza. It literally means "New Inn Ward". Shinjuku is also commonly used to refer to the entire area surrounding Shinjuku Station. The southern half of this area and of the station in fact belong to Yoyogi and Sendagaya districts of the neighboring Shibuya ward. Geography Shinjuku is surrounded by Chiyoda to the east; Bunkyo and Toshima to the north; Nakano to the west, and Shibuya and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takashi Yanase
Takashi Yanase (February 6, 1919 – October 13, 2013) was a Japanese writer, poet, illustrator and lyricist. He was best known as the creator of the picture book and animated series ''Anpanman''. Yanase was chairman of the Japan Cartoonists Association from May 2000 to 2012. Religion The day after his death, an obituary in the October 16, 2013 edition of the Tokyo Shimbun reported that he was "a dandy Christian with a strong faith." However, a correction was later published in the November 20, 2013 edition of the Tokyo Shimbun: "It was an error to refer to Takashi Yanase as a Christian.” Yanase himself wrote in "Gekkan Omoshihan No. 57, Special Feature: No Need for Religion!” in the March 1976 issue of Gekkan Omoshiban No. 57, "I don't have any religious beliefs at all. I’ll probably never turn to religion.” and “I’m not religious at all, even though I respect religion and worship God in my own way. I’m not religious at all.” Photos of his gravesite also show n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kō Kojima
was a Japanese manga artist. He was best known for penning ''Sennin Buraku'' (running since 1956 in ''Weekly Asahi Geinō''), the longest running comic by a single artist. He attended the private in Koishikawa (now part of Bunkyō, Tokyo), after which he began attending Taiheiyō Fine Arts Academy before dropping out partway through school. Ko was born in Taito. From his elementary years through high school, Kojima began drawing manga, and in 1949 he made his professional debut as a member of the Dokuritsu Mangaha. That group broke up in 1959, and in 1964 he joined the Japan Manga Artist Cooperative and the Manga Shūdan, participating in both groups regularly. Due to the adult and modern nature of his works, as well as his unusual drawing style, his works became very popular, garnering him the 1968 Bungeishunjū Manga Prize from the literary magazine ''Bungeishunjū'' for his work ''Nihon no Kaa-chan''. Other works include the long running ''Sennin Buraku'', as well as ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
