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 bef ...

. She debuted in 2001 with the short story , published in ''

Monthly Gangan Wing is a manga imprint owned by Square Enix Holdings. It originated as a manga imprint for Enix before the company re-branded as Square Enix. It publishes manga in several anthologies aimed at different reader demographic groups in the Japanese ma ...

''. She is best known as the creator of the

manga Manga ( Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is ...

series '' Arakawa Under the Bridge'' and ''

Saint Young Men is a Japanese slice of life comedy manga series written and illustrated by Hikaru Nakamura. Its plot involves Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha, who are living as roommates in an apartment in Tokyo. It has been serialized by Kodansha in the ...

'', the latter of which won a

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. Curre ...

in 2009. A ''Nikkei Entertainment'' magazine article published in August 2011 listed her ninth overall among the top 50 manga creators by sales since 2010, with 5.54 million copies sold. Her artwork has also been featured in two manga exhibitions at the

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in London, England. Nakamura gave birth to her first child, a daughter, in November 2011.

Works

* , serialized in ''

Young Gangan is a manga imprint owned by Square Enix Holdings. It originated as a manga imprint for Enix before the company re-branded as Square Enix. It publishes manga in several anthologies aimed at different reader demographic groups in the Japanese mark ...

'' (2004–2015) * , serialized in '' Monthly Morning Two'' (2006–present) * , illustration only, serialized in ''

Weekly Young Jump is a Japanese ''seinen'' manga magazine published by Shueisha. Launched in 1979, it is published under Shueisha's ''Jump'' line of magazines. The chapters of series that run in ''Weekly Young Jump'' are collected and published in ''tankōbon'' v ...

'' (2015) * , serialized in ''

'' (2016–2019) and ''

Ultra Jump is a Japanese monthly seinen manga magazine published by Shueisha under the Jump line of magazines. Originally, the magazine was a special issue of '' Weekly Young Jump'' which was first issued in 1995. On October 19, 1999, the special issue bec ...

'' (2019–present)

Awards

, - ! scope="row" , 2008 , ''

'' , Jury Selections ,

Japan Media Arts Festival Awards 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 a ...

, Manga Division , , , , - ! scope="row" , 2009 , ''Saint Young Men'' , Male Readers , , , , , - ! scope="row" , 2009 , ''Saint Young Men'' , , Manga Taishō , , , , - ! scope="row" , 2009 , ''Saint Young Men'' , Short Work Prize ,

, , , , - ! scope="row" , 2010 , ''Saint Young Men'' , Male Readers , , , , , - ! scope="row" , 2012 , ''Saint Young Men'' , Best Comic ,

Angoulême International Comics Festival The Angoulême International Comics Festival (french: Festival international de la bande dessinée d'Angoulême) is the second largest comics festival in Europe after the Lucca Comics & Games in Italy, and the third biggest in the world after ...

, , , , - ! scope="row" , 2015 , ''Saint Young Men'' , Book of the Year , ''

Da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on h ...

'' , , ,

References

External links

Official Twitter account
* (defunct; link via the

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)
Interview with ''Jump SQ''
(defunct; link via the Wayback Machine)

* 1984 births Female comics writers Japanese women writers Japanese writers Living people Manga artists from Shizuoka Prefecture Women manga artists {{manga-artist-stub