is a Japanese

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and writer, best known for her

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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 Septe ...

''.

Life

Ōima was born on March 15, 1989 in

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, 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 is a Japanese novel series written by Tow Ubukata. The first novel was published in Japan in May 2003, with the final novel published in July 2003. They were later adapted into a manga series and an anime film trilogy. In North America, ...

which was an adaptation of the same-named novel written by

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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

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. In 2016 Yoshitoki Ōima released her third full manga series under the moniker ''

''. In 2015 , Yoshitoki Ōima won the New Creator Prize for ''A Silent Voice'' at 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. Curren ...

. ''A Silent Voice ''was nominated for an

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a year later, the Rudolf-Dirks-Award and the

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in 2017 and 2018. In 2018 she won at French

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the Daruma d′Or Manga for ''A Silent Voice'' and the Daruma de la Meilleure Nouvelle Série for ''

''.

Works

* ''

'' (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) * ''

'' (2016-Ongoing, Serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine)

Accolades

** 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'') *

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** 2016: ''

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'' for ''A Silent Voice'' (''nominated'') * Rudolf-Dirks-Awards ** 2017: ''Best Scenario (Asia)'' for ''A Silent Voice'' (won) *

** 2018: for ''A Silent Voice'' (''nominated'') *

** 2018: ''Daruma d′Or Manga'' for ''A Silent Voice'' (won) ** 2018: ''Daruma de la Meilleure Nouvelle Série'' for

(won)

Notes

External links

Yoshitoki Ōima
in the Anime News Network encyclopaedia
Yoshitoki Ōima
at AniSearch
Interview
in

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