is a

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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 be ...

Life

After graduating from Kagoshima Prefectural Ibusuki High School, she attended

Tsuru University Tsuru University (都留文科大学 ''Tsuru Bunka Daigaku'', literally Tsuru University of Humanities) is a small municipal university located in Tsuru City, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. The university has around 3,000 students and 85 faculty. Th ...

from where she graduated with a degree in

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. While still attending Tsuru University, Nishi made her professional

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debut in 1988 with the short story "Matteiru yo" in Shogakukan's manga magazine ''

Petit Flower was a Japanese '' shōjo'' manga magazine published by Shogakukan. Founded in 1980, the magazine ceased publication in March 2002, when it was replaced by the magazine ''Flowers''. History Shogakukan began publishing ''Petit Flower'' as a regula ...

''. After her debut, she stopped publishing manga and was working as an elementary school teacher. Eventually, she took up manga again because of financial reasons.Urasawa, Naoki (2020). 西炯子 ishi Keiko ''Urasawa Naoki no Manben neo''. NHK Educational TV. Her definitive works include ''Sanban-chō Hagiwara-ya no Bijin'' and ''

Love Song A love song is a song about romantic love, falling in love, heartbreak after a breakup, and the feelings that these experiences bring. A comprehensive list of even the best known performers and composers of love songs would be a large order. ...

''.

Style

Nishi was inspired by manga artists

Fusako Kuramochi is a Japanese manga artist. While still in high school, she made her professional debut with , published in the Autumn 1972 issue of ''Bessatsu Margaret''. She won the magazine's gold medal for amateur manga artists. Afterwards, Kuramochi stud ...

and

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko is a Japanese animator, manga artist, and anime director. He is best known for being the character designer and animation director of the original ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' anime, which began in 1979. That same year, he began working as a manga art ...

. After completing a draft with pencil, she starts the inking process of her pages using a G pen also for thin lines. She then adds more detailed lines with a Maru pen.

Legacy

Rachel Thorn Rachel Thorn (formerly Matt Thorn; born May 12, 1965) is a cultural anthropologist and an associate professor in the Department of Manga Production at Kyoto Seika University's Faculty of Manga in Japan. She is best known in North America for he ...

described her in the mid-1990s as "one of the most popular and respected artists of her (twenty-something) generation." Her former assistants include

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. Her manga series ''

Otoko no Isshō is a slice of life romance manga, romance ''josei manga, josei'' manga series written and illustrated by Keiko Nishi. It was published by Shogakukan on ''Flowers (magazine), Flowers'' magazine and in four volumes compiling the chapters. A live ...

'' was nomininated for the

Manga Taishō The is a Japanese comics award recognizing achievement in manga. It is awarded annually to a manga series published in the previous calendar year of eight or fewer collected volumes in length. The Manga Taishō was founded with the aim of re ...

in 2010 and, in the same year, was among the jury-selected works at the

Japan Media Arts Festival The Japan Media Arts Festival is an annual festival held since 1997 by Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs. The festival begins with an open competition and culminates with the awarding of several prizes and an exhibition. Based on judging by ...

. She herself has been in the festival's jury for manga from 2019 until 2021.

Works

*''Sanban-chō Hagiwara-ya no Bijin'' (三番町萩原屋の美人, 1991-2000) *''Love Song'' (October 1993, , Shogakukan) ** ''Love Song'' (1998-04-05, ,

Viz Communications VIZ Media LLC is an American manga publisher, anime distributor and entertainment company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1986 as VIZ LLC. In 2005, VIZ LLC and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current VIZ M ...

) * ''STAY'' (2002-2006) * ''Denpa no hito yo'' (2007) * ''Nisan to Boku'' (2008-2011) *''

'' (2008–2012) *''

Ane no Kekkon is a Japanese slice of life romance ''josei'' manga series written and illustrated by Keiko Nishi. It was serialized in Shogakukan's ''Flowers'' manga magazine from 2010 to August 2014. It was compiled into 8 volumes published between 2011 and ...

'' (姉の結婚, 2010–2014) *''Ta-tan'' (たーたん, since 2015) *''Hatsukoi no Sekai'' (初恋の世界, since 2016) *''Koi to Kokkai'' (恋と国会, since 2018)

Anthologies

*''

Four Shōjo Stories ''Four Shōjo Stories'' is a shōjo manga anthology released by Viz Media in February 1996. It contains two stories by Keiko Nishi, and one each by Moto Hagio and Shio Satō. This was one of the earliest (if not the first) shōjo titles relea ...

'' (February 1996, ,

, two stories)

References

External links

Keiko Nishi
(fan site)

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