is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for his sci-fi series ''

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Career

Tomizawa worked as an assistant to '' Baki the Grappler'' author

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, before publishing his first work as a professional manga artist with the series ''Uchū Jūbe'' in the magazine ''Shōnen Champion''.

Style and themes

His manga tend to be short, with sci-fi stories involving children and insects. His art was fairly standard shōnen manga style for his first series, but starting with ''Alien 9'' it became very distinctive, but with very large eyes and unnatural proportions, and has since been featured in exhibitions including

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Works

* ''Treasure Hunter'' (肥前屋兵衛 ''Uchū Jūbe'', serialized in ''Shōnen Champion'', 1994-1995) * ''

'' (エイリアン9, serialized in ''

Young Champion is a Japanese seinen manga magazine. The magazine was established in 1988. It is published by Akita Shoten and has its headquarters in Tokyo. History Manga series * '' Alien Nine'' by Hitoshi Tomizawa (1998-1999) * '' Babel II: The Returner' ...

'', 1998-1999) * '' Milk Closet'' (ミルククローゼット, serialized in ''Afternoon'', 2000-2001) * ''Propeller Heaven'' (プロペラ天国 ''Propeller Tengoku'', serialized in ''

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 ...

'', 2000-2001) * '' Alien Nine Emulators'' (エイリアン9 エミュレイターズ, serialized in ''

Champion Red is a monthly Japanese ''seinen'' manga magazine, published on the 19th each month by Akita Shoten since August 19, 2002 (cover date October 2002), initially published as a ''shōnen'' magazine. Since 2015, the magazine slogan is . was a sp ...

'', 2002) * ''Radio Depart'' (ラジオデパート, one-shot in '' Afternoon Season Zōkan'', 2002) * '' Battle Royale II: Blitz Royale'' (BR2/ブリッツ・ロワイアル, serialized in ''Young Champion'', 2003-2004, based on

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) * ''Tokumu Hōkōkan Yumihari'' (特務咆哮艦ユミハリ, serialized in ''Genzo'', 2004-2007) * ''

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'' (ゆめにっき, serialized in '' Manga Life Win'', 2013-2014) *''Alien 9 Next'' (エイリアン9ネクスト, self-published, 2015-2016)

References

External links

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Tomizawa's official website (Japanese). {{DEFAULTSORT:Tomizawa, Hitoshi Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Manga artists