is a Japanese
manga artist and writer, best known for her
manga series ''
A Silent Voice'' and ''
To Your Eternity
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshitoki Ōima. It has been serialized in ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' since November 2016, with individual chapters collected by Kodansha into eighteen ''tankōbon'' volumes as of Sept ...
''.
Life
Ōima was born on March 15, 1989 in
Ōgaki
Ōgaki Castle
is a city located in Gifu, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 161,539, and a population density of 782 persons per km2 in 65,931 households. The total area of the city was . Ōgaki was the final destination for the h ...
,
Japan as the third daughter of a sign language interpreter mother and has an older sister and an older brother. Due to her mother's work as a sign language interpreter Ōima was inspired to write the
''A Silent Voice'' manga series where she got help by her mother and her sister working on the series.
Her first manga was
Mardock Scramble which was an adaptation of the same-named novel written by
Tow Ubukata and was released in 2009.
She was also responsible for an illustration of the ending sequence of the ninth episode of
Attack on Titan. After her success with ''A Silent Voice'' Yoshitoki Ōima worked alongside other manga artists on a collaboration manga called
Ore no 100-wame!!. In 2016 Yoshitoki Ōima released her third full manga series under the moniker ''
To Your Eternity
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshitoki Ōima. It has been serialized in ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' since November 2016, with individual chapters collected by Kodansha into eighteen ''tankōbon'' volumes as of Sept ...
''.
In 2015 , Yoshitoki Ōima won the New Creator Prize for ''A Silent Voice'' at the
Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.
''A Silent Voice ''was nominated for an
Eisner Award a year later,
the Rudolf-Dirks-Award and the
Max & Moritz Prize
The Max & Moritz Prize is a prize for comic books, comic strips, and other similar materials which has been awarded at each of the biennial International Comics Shows of Erlangen since 1984. It is open to all material published in Germany.
1984 ...
in 2017 and 2018.
In 2018 she won at French
Japan Expo
Japan Expo is a convention on Japanese popular culture - the largest of its kind in the world - taking place in Paris, France, although it has branched out into a partnership festival - Kultima - and expanded to include some European and US pop c ...
the Daruma d′Or Manga for ''A Silent Voice'' and the Daruma de la Meilleure Nouvelle Série for ''
To Your Eternity
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshitoki Ōima. It has been serialized in ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' since November 2016, with individual chapters collected by Kodansha into eighteen ''tankōbon'' volumes as of Sept ...
''.
Works
* ''
Mardock Scramble'' (2009-2012, Serialized in Bessatsu Shonen Magazine)
* ''
A Silent Voice'' (2013-2014, Serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine)
* ''Ore no 100-wame!!'' (alongside other manga artists) (2015)
* ''
To Your Eternity
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshitoki Ōima. It has been serialized in ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' since November 2016, with individual chapters collected by Kodansha into eighteen ''tankōbon'' volumes as of Sept ...
'' (2016-Ongoing, Serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine)
Accolades
*
Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize
** 2015: ''New Creator Prize'' for
''A Silent Voice'' (won)
*
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 ...
** 2015: ''Manga'' for ''A Silent Voice'' (''nominated'')
** 2018: ''Manga'' for ''To Your Eternity'' (''nominated'')
*
Eisner Awards
The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books, sometimes referred to as the comics industry's equivalent of the Academy Awards. They are named in ...
** 2016: ''
Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia'' for ''A Silent Voice'' (''nominated'')
*
Rudolf-Dirks-Awards
** 2017: ''Best Scenario (Asia)'' for ''A Silent Voice'' (won)
*
Max & Moritz Prize
The Max & Moritz Prize is a prize for comic books, comic strips, and other similar materials which has been awarded at each of the biennial International Comics Shows of Erlangen since 1984. It is open to all material published in Germany.
1984 ...
** 2018: for ''A Silent Voice'' (''nominated'')
*
Japan Expo
Japan Expo is a convention on Japanese popular culture - the largest of its kind in the world - taking place in Paris, France, although it has branched out into a partnership festival - Kultima - and expanded to include some European and US pop c ...
** 2018: ''Daruma d′Or Manga'' for ''A Silent Voice'' (won)
** 2018: ''Daruma de la Meilleure Nouvelle Série'' for
To Your Eternity
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshitoki Ōima. It has been serialized in ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' since November 2016, with individual chapters collected by Kodansha into eighteen ''tankōbon'' volumes as of Sept ...
(won)
Notes
External links
Yoshitoki Ōimain the
Anime News Network encyclopaedia
Yoshitoki Ōimaat
AniSearch
Interviewin
Le Monde
''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website si ...
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1989 births
Living people
Manga artists from Gifu Prefecture
Winner of Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (New Artist Prize)
Women manga artists