is a Japanese

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. He is popularly known for his

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manga series ''

Tokyo Ghoul is a Japanese dark fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Sui Ishida. It was serialized in Shueisha's manga magazine ''Weekly Young Jump'' from September 2011 to September 2014, with its chapters collected in 14 vo ...

'' and '' Choujin X''.

Career history

Sui Ishida is best known for his

series ''

'', a story about a young man named Ken Kaneki who gets transformed into a

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after encountering one. The series then ran from 2011 to 2014 in

Shueisha is a Japanese publishing company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Shueisha is the largest publishing company in Japan. It was established in 1925 as the entertainment-related publishing division of Japanese publisher Shogakukan. The ...

's ''

Weekly Young Jump is a Japanese 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 volumes under the "Y ...

'' magazine, and was later adapted into a

light novel A is a type of Genre fiction, popular literature novel from Japan usually classified as young adult fiction, generally targeting Adolescence, teens to Young adult, twenties or older. The definition is very vague, and wide-ranging. The abbr ...

and

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series in 2014. The manga was also translated into English where it topped ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list in 2015. A prequel titled ''Tokyo Ghoul ack' was briefly serialized digitally on ''Jump Live'' in 2013. In 2014, he began a sequel titled '' Tokyo Ghoul:re''. In 2017, a live-action adaptation of ''Tokyo Ghoul'' was released theatrically in Japan. In March 2018, an anime adaptation for ''Tokyo Ghoul:re'' began to air with a second season released in October 2018. In 2016, Ishida created a 69-page

storyboard A storyboard is a graphic organizer that consists of simple illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence. The storyboarding proce ...

of a manga chapter based on

Yoshihiro Togashi is a Japanese manga artist. He began drawing manga at an early age, before being recognized for his talent by the publishing company Shueisha while attending college. Togashi has authored several different manga series in different Literary ge ...

's ''

Hunter × Hunter ''Hunter × Hunter'' (pronounced "hunter hunter") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Togashi. It has been serialized in Shueisha's manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' since March 1998, although the man ...

'' series. Depicting the past of the character Hisoka, the storyboard was released digitally via '' Shonen Jump+'' on June 2, 2016. On May 10, 2021, Ishida started the manga series '' Choujin X'' on

's ''Tonari no Young Jump'' website.

Works

Manga

Light novels

Video games

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ishida, Sui 1985 births Japanese illustrators Living people Manga artists from Fukuoka Prefecture Tokyo Ghoul