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Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize
Named after Osamu Tezuka, the is a yearly manga prize awarded to manga artists or their works that follow the Osamu Tezuka manga approach founded and sponsored by Asahi Shimbun. The prize has been awarded since 1997, in Tokyo, Japan. Current prizes categories *Grand Prize – for the excellent work during the year *Creative Award – for the creator with innovative or epoch-making expression and fresh talent *Short story Award – for the excellent work or creator of the short story *Special Award – for the person or group who contributed to extend the culture of manga Prizes winners 1997 *Grand Prize: Fujiko Fujio for ''Doraemon'' *Award for Excellence: Moto Hagio for ''A Cruel God Reigns'' *Special Award: Toshio Naiki for the foundation and management of ''Modern Manga Library'' 1998 *Grand Prize: Jiro Taniguchi and Natsuo Sekikawa for the trilogy ''Bocchan No Jidai'' (Times of " Botchan") *Award for Excellence: Yūji Aoki for ''Naniwa Kin'yūdō'' (The way of the Ōs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tezuka
Osamu Tezuka (, born , ''Tezuka Osamu''; – 9 February 1989) was a Japanese manga artist, cartoonist, and animator. Born in Osaka Prefecture, his prolific output, pioneering techniques, and innovative redefinitions of genres earned him such titles as , and . Additionally, he is often considered the Japanese equivalent to Walt Disney, who served as a major inspiration during Tezuka's formative years. Though this phrase praises the quality of his early manga works for children and animations, it also blurs the significant influence of his later, more literary, gekiga works. Tezuka began what was known as the manga revolution in Japan with his '' New Treasure Island'' published in 1947. His output would spawn some of the most influential, successful, and well-received manga series including the children mangas ''Astro Boy'', ''Princess Knight'' and ''Kimba the White Lion'', and the adult-oriented series ''Black Jack'', ''Phoenix'', and ''Buddha'', all of which won several award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naniwa Kin'yūdō
is a Japanese manga series by Yūji Aoki which has been serialized in ''Weekly Morning'' since 1990. The series was awarded the 1992 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga and the 1998 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Award for Excellence. Plot The protagonist is Tatsuyuki Haibara, a young salaryman, Tokyo-born but living in Osaka. He loses his job at the start of the series and seeks work in the financial sector, but is repeatedly unsuccessful despite his intelligence and aptitude. (Haibara had been pressured into keeping his previous employer afloat with large personal loans, behavior highlighted in his credit rating and regarded as suspicious even though he repaid them.) Exhausting his options, he applies for a position at a small, shady loans company with links to the yakuza. Haibara is hired, but soon realises that his colleagues are little better than loan sharks, quick to intimidate clients who default. The series follows Haibara's dealings with many and varied customers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baku Yumemakura
is a Japanese science fiction and adventure writer. His works have sold more than 20 million copies in Japan spread across more than 280 titles. He is published in a variety of formats including feature films, television shows, movies and comic books. His works are influenced by outdoor interests such as fishing, particularly Ayu fishing, mountain climbing, canoeing as well as manga, photography, pottery, art, calligraphy, martial arts. He has published a number of photo collections of his journeys through Nepalese mountains. He is best known for writing ''Jōgen no Tsuki wo Taberu Shishi'' (The Lion that Ate the Crescent Moon), which won both the Seiun Award and the Nihon SF Taisho Award. He also has written film scripts, including the one to '' Onmyoji''. One of his popular martial arts serials that has been adapted into manga is " Garouden "餓狼伝" (legend of the hungry wolf), known in the west as "The legend of the fighting wolves" that has also two videogames to date. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reiko Okano
is a Japanese manga artist. Okano attended a graphic design school after graduating from high school and has never worked as a manga assistant. Her first serialized work was ''Esther, Please'' in 1982. In 1989, she won the Shogakukan Manga Award in the '' shōjo'' category for ''Fancy Dance''. ''Onmyōji'', an original work by Baku Yumemakura, was drawn by Reiko Okano and received the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2001. She went on to produce a sequel version, ''Onmyōji: Tamatebako'', in the comic magazine ''Melody''. She is married to director Makoto Tezuka , officially romanized as Macoto Tezka, is a Japanese film and anime director, born in Tokyo. He fashions himself as a visualist and is involved in the creation of moving images beyond film and animation. He partially owns Tezuka Productions an .... Works *'' Calling'' (コーリング) * * * References 1960 births Living people Women manga artists Manga artists from Ibaraki Prefecture Japanese female ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragon Head
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Minetaro Mochizuki. It was published by Kodansha in '' Weekly Young Magazine'' from 1994 and 1999 and collected in ten '' tankōbon'' volumes. It was licensed in English by Tokyopop, with the final volume released on April 1, 2008. In 1997, the manga won the Kodansha Manga Award for general manga. Kodansha USA currently holds the license to the manga. The series was adapted as a live-action film written and directed by Jôji Iida, released in Japan in August 2003. It starred Satoshi Tsumabuki and Sayaka Kanda. Plot Arc 1: Escape from the tunnels Teru Aoki (青木 輝), the main protagonist, is riding a train to Tokyo after a school trip. Just before his train enters a tunnel, Teru briefly sees something in the distance, though he doesn't understand what he saw. Soon after entering the tunnel, a powerful earthquake derails the train and blocks both sides of the tunnel with rubble. Knocked unconscious during the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minetarō Mochizuki
is a Japanese manga artist. He won the Award for Excellence at the 4th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and the Award for General Manga at the 21st Kodansha Manga Award for ''Dragon Head''. Works * ''Zashiki Onna'' * '' Batāshi Kingyo'' * ''Dragon Head'' (1995-2000) * '' Chiisakobee'' (2012–2015) * ''Isle of Dogs The Isle of Dogs is a large peninsula bounded on three sides by a large meander in the River Thames in East London, England, which includes the Cubitt Town, Millwall and Canary Wharf districts. The area was historically part of the Manor, Ham ...'' (2018) References External links 1961 births Living people Manga artists from Kanagawa Prefecture People from Yokohama {{manga-artist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daijiro Morohoshi
is a Japanese manga artist. He is well known for science fiction comics, allegorical comics and horror/mystery comics based on pseudohistory and folklore. The indirect influence by Cthulhu Mythos also appears here and there in his works. Biography Morohoshi grew up in Adachi-ku, Tokyo. After graduating from high school, he worked for the Tokyo metropolitan government for three years. In 1970, Morohoshi made his professional debut with his short story in ''COM''. In 1974, his short story was selected in the 7th Tezuka Award. His breakthrough came, when he started publishing the series in ''Weekly Shōnen Jump''. He published , in the same magazine afterwards. In 1979, he published the ''Mud Men'' series in '' Monthly Shōnen Champion Zōkan''. In 1983, he published (The Monkey King and other Chinese Legends) based on ''Journey to the West'' in ''Super Action''. This work won him the grand prize of the fourth Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2000. Style and themes Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fusanosuke Natsume
is a Japanese columnist and cartoonist. Born in Tokyo to Jun'ichi Natsume, grandson of novelist Natsume Sōseki, he attended Aoyama Gakuin University, where he graduated in 1973. He was awarded the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (Special Award) in 1999 for the excellence criticism of manga. He has written the book (2005), which was illustrated by Fumi Yoshinaga. References External linksOfficial blog Anime and manga critics Aoyama Gakuin University alumni Japanese writers Living people 1950 births Winner of Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (Special Award) {{anime-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shindo (manga) ''
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Shindo or Shindō may refer to: * *Shindo (religion) (신도), an alternative name of Korean Shamanism used by Shamanic associations in modern South Korea. People *Shindō (surname) * T.K. Shindo (1890-1974), Japanese photographer Other uses *, a Japanese manga by Akira Sasō (1998), film and novel by Koji Hagiuda (2007) *"Shindo", a song by Less Than Jake on the 1996 album ''Losing Streak ''Losing Streak'' is the second studio album by ska punk band Less Than Jake, released on November 12, 1996 on Capitol Records. The album was recorded at Criteria Studios in Miami, Florida and Mirror Image Studios in Gainesville, Florida, bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akira Sasō
is a Japanese manga artist and educator. He has won a Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and two Japan Media Arts Awards, the latter for his manga '' Shindō'' (1997–98) and ''Maestro'' (2003–07). Biography Sasō was born in Takarazuka, Hyōgo, Japan, in 1961. He completed his secondary education at Ikeda Senior High School in Osaka, then attended the Faculty of Literature at Waseda University, graduating in 1984. That year he made his debut in manga with ''Shiroi shiroi natsu yanen'', which was published in ''seinen'' oriented ''Young Magazine'' in 1984. By the late 1990s he had finished such works as ''Busy Love'' (''Ai ga isogashii'') and (''Oretachi ni Asu wa Naissu''). Between 1997 and 1998 Sasō wrote '' Shindō'' (''The Prodigy''), which was published in ''Manga Action'' in four volumes. It follow Uta, a young musical prodigy who rejects her gifts in her grief over her father's disappearance. For this manga, Sasō received the 3rd Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, as well as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monster (manga)
''Monster'' (stylized as 🢒M⊙NS†ER🢐) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa. It was published by Shogakukan in their Seinen manga, ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Big Comic Original'' between 1994 and 2001, with the chapters collected in eighteen ''tankōbon'' volumes. The story revolves around Kenzo Tenma, a Japanese surgeon living in Düsseldorf, Germany whose life enters turmoil after getting himself involved with Johan Liebert, one of his former patients, who is revealed to be a dangerous serial killer. Urasawa later wrote and illustrated the novel ''Another Monster'', a story detailing the events of the manga from an investigative reporter's point of view, which was published in 2002. The manga was adapted by Madhouse (company), Madhouse into a seventy-four episode anime television series, which aired on Nippon TV from April 2004 to September 2005. The manga and anime were both licensed by Viz Media for English releases in North America, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
