is a Japanese

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 ...

who has worked on several projects, including his adaptation on the popular ''Kingdom Hearts'' series.

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Amano worked on the manga adaptation of the '' Legend of Mana'' video game series. It was serialized from 2000 to 2002 and published in five volumes. Amano also worked on the ''

Kingdom Hearts is a series of action role-playing games developed and published by Square Enix (originally by Square). It is a collaboration between Square Enix and The Walt Disney Company and is under the leadership of Tetsuya Nomura, a longtime Square Eni ...

'' manga adaptations, following the events that took place in the video games with differences to account for the loss of interactivity a video game provides. The manga was originally serialized in Japan by Square Enix's '' Monthly Shōnen Gangan'' and eventually released in

tankōbon is the Japanese term for a book that is not part of an anthology or corpus. In modern Japanese, the term is most often used in reference to individual volumes of a manga series: most series first appear as individual chapters in a weekly or mon ...

format. The first tankōbon was released in Japan in October 2003. The manga was released in the US by

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two years later in October 2005. Yen Press now holds the rights to publish the books for the USA market. The first series, ''Kingdom Hearts'', consists of four volumes, while the second series, ''Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories'', has two volumes. The third series, ''Kingdom Hearts II'', has had five volumes published and is currently on hiatus. A fourth series based on ''Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days'' is being serialized. The games have also been adapted as a

light novel A light novel (, Hepburn: ''raito noberu'') is a style of young adult novel primarily targeting high school and middle school students. The term "light novel" is a '' wasei-eigo'', or a Japanese term formed from words in the English lang ...

series, written by Tomoco Kanemaki and illustrated by Shiro Amano. Like the manga series, it is divided into separate series based on the games. ''Kingdom Hearts'' is divided into two volumes; "The First Door" and "Darkness Within". ''Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories'' is divided into two volumes. ''Kingdom Hearts II'' is divided into four volumes; "Roxas—Seven Days", "The Destruction of Hollow Bastion", "Tears of Nobody", and "Anthem—Meet Again/Axel Last Stand".

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