Seishi Kishimoto

is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for '' 666 Satan'', which was serialized in ''Monthly Shōnen Gangan'' from 2001 to 2007 and licensed by Viz Media in North America as ''O-Parts Hunter''. He has since completed four more manga series, '' Blazer Drive'' (2008–2011), ''Kurenai no Ōkami to Ashikase no Hitsuji'' (2011–2013), ''Sukedachi 09'' (2014–2016), and ''Mad Chimera World'' (2017–2019).

Biography

Seishi Kishimoto was born in Okayama Prefecture, Japan on November 8, 1974 as the younger identical twin of Masashi Kishimoto. In elementary school, Kishimoto started watching the anime adaptation of ''Kinnikuman'' alongside his brother and the two of them began to design their own superheroes.

Kishimoto's first manga was the one-shot ''Trigger'' published in Square Enix's ''Gangan Powered'' in 2001. With the story he wanted to write about "faith and parent-child relationships," but had trouble fitting it within the page limit. He began his first serialized work, '' 666 Satan'', in ''Monthly Shōnen Gangan'' in 2001. The manga continued for six years and has been translated and released in several foreign countries, including in North America by Viz Media. A year after ''666 Satan'' ended, Kishimoto launched '' Blazer Drive'' in the April 2008 debut issue of Kodansha's '' Monthly Shōnen Rival''. Preceded by a prequel one-shot titled ''Tribal'' in the final issue of ''Comic BomBom'', ''Blazer Drive'' ran until December 2010 and received a video game adaptation. He then created the one-shot ''Jūniji no Kaneganaru'', which was published in the monthly shōjo magazine ''Aria'' in 2011. In the January 2012 issue of ''Monthly Shōnen Rival'', Kishimoto debuted ''Kurenai no Ōkami to Ashikase no Hitsuji'', which ran until 2013.

In 2014, Kishimoto began work on ''Sukedachi 09'', a pair of linked print and digital series in ''Monthly Shōnen Gangan'' and ''Gangan Online'' which take place at the same time but follow different protagonists. The print series debuted in the November 2014 issue of ''Monthly Shōnen Gangan'' on October 11, while the digital series was released in ''Gangan Online'' on October 16. ''Sukedachi 09'' ended in the August 2016 issue, published on July 12. In July 2016, digital distributor Crunchyroll acquired the manga for English release on their website.

Kishimoto began the ''seinen'' action series ''Mad Chimera World'' in the June 2017 issue of Kodansha's ''Monthly Morning Two'' magazine, which was released on April 22. A special one-shot of the series was published in the November 16, 2017 issue of ''Weekly Morning'' to celebrate the magazine's 35th anniversary. The series ended in the magazine's March 2019 issue, which was released on January 22.

On January 20, 2021, DeNA's free Manga Box website and application published the one-shot ''Yobigami'', which Kishimoto drew for the second episode of the TBS TV show ''Oh! My Boss! Koi wa Bessatsu de''. He was credited by the name for the work, after the character who drew the manga on the show. To celebrate Manga Box's eighth anniversary, Kishimoto launched the weekly "battle fantasy" ''shōnen'' manga ''Monster Life and the Earth'', which expands the world of ''Yobigami'', on December 4, 2021.

Style and influences

Seishi and his twin brother Masashi have been drawing manga together since early childhood, thus their styles are similar. As a result, each of them has frequently been accused of copying the other, not just artwork, but story elements as well. Seishi himself notes that the similarities are not intentional but are likely because they were both influenced by many of the same things.

Works

;Serializations
* (September 2001 – January 2008; serialized in ''Monthly Shōnen Gangan'')
* (May 2008 – December 2010; serialized in '' Monthly Shōnen Rival'')
* (December 2011 – February 2013; serialized in ''Monthly Shōnen Rival'')
* (October 2014 – July 2016; serialized in ''Monthly Shōnen Gangan'' and ''Gangan Online'')
* (April 2017 – January 2019; serialized in ''Monthly Morning Two'')
* (December 2021–present; serialized on Manga Box)

;One-shots
*''Trigger'' (March 2001; published in ''Gangan Powered'' and reprinted in ''666 Satan'' volume 6)
* (March – April 2003; published in ''Monthly Shōnen Gangan'')
* (November 2007, published in ''Comic BomBom'' and reprinted in ''Blazer Drive'' volume 1)
* (April 2011; published in ''Aria'')
* (November 16, 2017; published in ''Weekly Morning'')
* (January 20, 2021; published on Manga Box, credited as "Ukyō Arazome")

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Japanese twins
Manga artists from Okayama Prefecture
1974 births
Living people