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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 bef ...
. Azuma made his professional debut in 1969 in the Akita Shoten manga magazine '' Manga Ō''. He was most well known for his
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''
lolicon In Japanese popular culture, is a genre of fictional media in which young (or young-looking) girl characters appear in romantic or sexual contexts. The term, a portmanteau of the English phrase " Lolita complex", also refers to desire an ...
''-themed works appearing in magazines such as '' Weekly Shōnen Champion'', as well as children's comedy series such as ''
Nanako SOS is a seinen manga series created by Hideo Azuma which ran in ''Popcorn'' and ''Just Comic'' (both published by Kobunsha) from April 1980 to July 1986. The series was adapted into 39-episode anime television series produced by Kokusai Eiga-sh ...
'' and ''
Little Pollon , is a musical Greek mythology-based Japanese anime series, based on the 1977 manga series '' Olympus no Pollon'' (, , "Pollon of Olympus") by Hideo Azuma. ''Olympus no Pollon'' was serialized in ''Princess'' magazine from 1977 to 1979, per th ...
'' (which both became
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television series in the early 1980s). He has been called the "father of ''lolicon''". In 2005 he published an autobiographical manga titled ''
Disappearance Diary is a manga by Hideo Azuma and published by East Press in Japan in March 2005. The manga is a somewhat-fictionalized autobiography of part of the author's life and of his alcohol dependency problems. It has received multiple awards inside and ...
'' that has won several awards including the
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. Curre ...
. His name is also sometimes
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Hideo Aduma.


Career


Early years

While attending Hokkaidō Urahoro High School, Azuma participated in the Hokkaidō branch office of ''
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'', along with other artists such as Monkey Punch and
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. In 1968, after graduating from high school, he moved to
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and found employment with
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. He left this job after three months to work as an assistant to manga artist
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, where he did uncredited work for ''
Weekly Shōnen Sunday is a weekly ''shōnen'' manga magazine published in Japan by Shogakukan since March 1959. Contrary to its title, ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' issues are released on Wednesdays. ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' has sold over 1.8billion copies since 1986, ...
'' on series such as ''Mini Mini Manga''. Azuma made his professional debut in 1969 in '' Manga Ō'' with his work ''Ringside Crazy''. The following year he quit working as an assistant and doing his own work. He gradually expanded his work to include both shōjo and
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. His first works tended to be light gag manga, though he began to include
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elements influenced by his being a fan of the New Hollywood movement in
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. It was during this period that he experimented a lot with one panel manga (as opposed to four panel). Beginning in 1972, Azuma began rising in popularity due to the
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in his '' Weekly Shōnen Champion'' series ''Futari to 5-nin''. He also married his assistant the same year, with whom he had a girl in 1980 and a boy in 1983. His wife was credited as "Assistant A" in his works, and his daughter and son were respectively credited as "Assistant B" and "Assistant C".


Boom period

Azuma began serializing in 1975 his story ''Yakekuso Tenshi'' in the
semimonthly {{Short pages monitor


Awards

*2005: Grand Prize, Manga Division, 9th Japan Media Arts Awards for ''Shissō Nikki'' *2006: Grand Prize,
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. Curre ...
for ''Shissō Nikki'' *2008: Selection,
Angoulême International Comics Festival The Angoulême International Comics Festival (french: Festival international de la bande dessinée d'Angoulême) is the second largest comics festival in Europe after the Lucca Comics & Games in Italy, and the third biggest in the world after ...
for ''Shissō Nikki''


References


External links


Azuma Hideo Official Homepage
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