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Takako Shimura
is a Japanese manga artist. She is primarily known for her manga works which feature LGBT (especially lesbian and transgender) topics. Her best known and selling series are ''Aoi Hana'' and ''Wandering Son''. ''Aoi Hana'' was adapted as an anime television series broadcast in 2009. ''Wandering Son'' has been licensed in English by Fantagraphics Books and an anime adaptation aired in 2011. In 2014, she collaborated with the original character concepts for the anime ''Aldnoah.Zero''. In 2016, she provided the character designs for the anime ''Battery''. Works * (1997–2002, 7 volumes) * (2003, one-shot) * (2003, 1 volume) ** (1997, debut story) ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ''sweet16'' * (2002–2004, 2 volumes) * (2002–2005, 3 volumes) * (2002–2013, 15 volumes) * (2004–2013, 8 volumes) * (1 volume) * (2004–2005, 2 chapters) * (adaptation of the Chiya Fujino novel, 2007–2008, 1 volume) * (2009, one-shot) * (2011–present, 3+ volumes) * (2012–2017, 7 volumes ...
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Kanagawa Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kanagawa Prefecture borders Tokyo to the north, Yamanashi Prefecture to the northwest and Shizuoka Prefecture to the west. Yokohama is the capital and largest city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second-largest city in Japan, with other major cities including Kawasaki, Sagamihara, and Fujisawa. Kanagawa Prefecture is located on Japan's eastern Pacific coast on Tokyo Bay and Sagami Bay, separated by the Miura Peninsula, across from Chiba Prefecture on the Bōsō Peninsula. Kanagawa Prefecture is part of the Greater Tokyo Area, the most populous metropolitan area in the world, with Yokohama and many of its cities being major commercial hubs and southern suburbs of Tokyo. Kanagawa Prefecture was the political and economic center of Japan du ...
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Japanese Female Comics Artists
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Manga Artists From Kanagawa Prefecture
Manga (Japanese language, Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is used in Japan to refer to both comics and cartooning. Outside of Japan, the word is typically used to refer to comics originally published in the country. In Japan, people of all ages and walks of life read manga. The medium includes works in a broad range of Genre, genres: Action fiction, action, Adventure fiction, adventure, business and commerce, comedy, Detective fiction, detective, drama, Historical fiction, historical, Horror fiction, horror, Mystery fiction, mystery, Romance novel, romance, science fiction and fantasy, Erotic literature, erotica (''hentai'' and ''ecchi''), Sports novel, sports and games, and suspense, among others. Many manga are translated into other languages. Since the 1950s, manga has become an in ...
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Women Manga Artists
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1973 Births
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Chiya Fujino
is a Japanese writer of literary fiction. She has published several novels and short stories, and has been awarded three major Japanese literary prizes. Fujino is a transgender woman who reflects the difficulties of her own life journey in the characterisations of her writing. Many of her characters are social misfits in conflict with the conventions and mores of wider Japanese society. Born in the city of Fukuoka, Fujino attended Chiba University. In the 1980s, she worked in a major Japanese publishing house before beginning her own writing career. Selected works * ''Gogo no jikanwari'' (Afternoon timetable), 1995 (Winner, 14th Kaien New Novelists Prize) * ''Shonen to shojo no poruka'' oy's and Girl's PolkaBenesse Corporation, 1996; Kodansha, 2000 (paperback) * ''Oshaberi kaidan'' hattyKodansha, 1998; paperback 2001 (Winner, 20th Noma New Writers Prize) * ''Natsu no yakusoku'' ummer promiseKodansha, 2000 (Winner, 122nd Akutagawa Prize The is a Japanese literary aw ...
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Ohta Publishing
is a Japanese publishing company. With a number of controversial books that disturbed the Japanese society and its erotic manga comics, the company has established itself like a source of provocative "subculture" items. History Ohta Publishing was created in 1985, when it separated from the publishing department of Ohta Production, a talent agency specializing in stand-up comedians. (Founded as a , it has, , been converted to a kabushiki gaisha.) Initially, from an outside perspective, Ohta Publishing did not seem like a serious company but rather a sort of toy company of Takeshi Kitano (who was an Ohta Production artist back then). It released books that were of interest to Kitano himself. In 1989, Ohta published the famous book ''The Age of M'' about serial child murderer Tsutomu Miyazaki and started establishing itself like a source of provocative "subculture" items. Around the same time, the bi-monthly magazine '' QuickJapan'' was founded. In 1993 Ohta released the book '' ...
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Happy-Go-Lucky Days
is a Japanese manga series by Takako Shimura. It was serialized in Ohta Publishing's manga magazine ''Manga Erotics F'' from 2002 to 2004 and was collected in two large-sized ''tankōbon'' volumes. The manga is a collection of short episodes that depict slightly eccentric love stories and mundane daily life in a matter-of-fact manner with a unique tempo and delicate psychological descriptions. Most of the episodes in the collection have direct sexual depictions, although they are drawn in a light-hearted way. The manga's title comes from the book ''Herahera Botchan'' by Kō Machida. An anime film adaptation produced by Liden Films Kyoto Studio and directed by Takuya Satō premiered on October 23, 2020. Characters ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : ; : Media Anime An anime film adaptation was announced on November 20, 2019. The film is animated by Liden Films Kyoto Studio, distributed by Pony Canyon and directed by Takuya Satō, with Satō, Yasunori Id ...
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One-shot (comics)
In comics, a one-shot is a work composed of a single standalone issue or chapter, contrasting a limited series or ongoing series, which are composed of multiple issues or chapters.Albert, Aaron"One Shot Definition" About Entertainment. Retrieved July 8, 2016. One-shots date back to the early 19th century, published in newspapers, and today may be in the form of single published comic books, parts of comic magazines/anthologies or published online in websites. In the marketing industry, some one-shots are used as promotion tools that tie in with existing productions, movies, video games or television shows. Overview In the Japanese manga industry, one-shots are called , a term which implies that the comic is presented in its entirety without any continuation. One-shot manga are often written for contests, and sometimes later developed into a full-length series, much like a television pilot. Many popular manga series began as one-shots, such as ''Dragon Ball'', ''Fist of the North ...
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Battery (novel Series)
is a Japanese novel series by Atsuko Asano that was published by Kadokawa Shoten. The series is about Harada Takumi and Gō Nagakura, two boys who start a baseball team. For the work the author received the Noma Prize for Juvenile Literature in 1997 and the Shogakukan Children's Publication Culture Award in 2005. It has sold over 10 million copies in Japan, and has been adapted into a film in 2007 and an anime television series in 2016. Plot This story is about a young baseball pitcher named Takumi Harada who just recently moved in with his grandfather, a former coach at Nitta High School. Later on, Harada meets a catcher named Gō Nakagura. They start playing ball together, and Harada realizes that Gō can keep up with his pitches. Harada gets motivated and joins the baseball team at Nitta High. The two boys later begin their journey with a baseball team. Characters Main characters ; : :Portrayed by: Kento Hayashi (movie), Yūma Nakayama (TV drama) ; : :Portrayed by: Ke ...
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