Reiko Shimizu

Reiko Shimizu (Japanese清水 玲子, Shimizu Reiko, born March 26, 1963 in the prefecture of Tokyo, Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist, whose works are aimed at adolescent girls and young women and are thus assigned to the shōjo genre. She works for the publisher Hakusensha.

Life

Your first manga as a professional illustrator Reiko Shimizu published in 1983 with the short story Sansaro Monogatari manga magazine LaLa, for at that time the two 24er Ryoko Yamagishi and Yumiko Ōshima recorded among others. Since her debut Shimizu works mainly for LaLa. How about Moto Hagio also specializes signatory to science fiction stories that their early works Noah no Uchūsen and Mōhitotsu no Shinwa can be counted.

In Milky Way for the first time appeared on the two robots Jack and Elena, who can live forever. This manga was made ​​into a film in 1988 as a 30-minute original video animation, and is so far the only work of Shimizu, which was converted into an anime. The two characters Jack and Elena acted in other than their manga main characters, as in the two separate volumes Tenshitachi no shinkaron and 22XX, and comprehensive than 800 pages manga series Ryu hoshi no nemeru. From 1988 to 1993 she published the Mystery - Manga Tsuki no Ko in over 2300 pages in LaLa. In it she uses motifs from Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid and tells of a young New York dancer who gets to know a boy in a car accident, which carries no more memories with him and apparently a descendant of a mermaid.

Her biggest success came Reiko Shimizu to Princess Kaguya, which was based on the Japanese folk tale Taketori Monogatari and influenced by Moto Hagios science fiction manga They were Eleven. The adoptees, 15 -year-old Akira to come to the island Kabuchi to participate in a training camp. There she meets other young people who - like Akira - were chosen in childhood as a human sacrifice for the Moon Princess Kaguya. Princess Kaguya, which was released in Japan from 1993 to 2004 in over 5000 pages in LaLa and summarized in 27 anthologies, appeared among others in France, Italy and Germany and won the 2002 Shogakukan Manga Award.

Currently records the author who brought out three art books, to the thriller Himitsu - Top Secret for the manga magazine Melody. Himitsu - Top Secret has been nominated for the 2002 Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize - but Takehiko Inoue's Vagabond was beaten.

Works (selection)

  • Sansaro Monogatari (三 叉路 物语), 1983
  • Noah no Uchūsen (ノア の 宇宙船), 1985
  • Mōhitotsu no Shinwa, 1986
  • Milky Way (ミルキーウェイ, Mirukī Wei ), 1986
  • Tenshitachi no Shinkaron (天使 たち の 進化 論), 1986
  • Ryu Hoshi no nemeru (竜 の 眠る 星), 1987-1988
  • Tsuki no Ko (月 の 子), 1988-1993
  • 22XX, 1994
  • Princess Kaguya (辉 夜 姫, Kaguya Hime ), 1993-2004
  • Wild Cats, 2000
  • Himitsu - Top Secret (秘密-トップ·シークレット- Himitsu - Toppu Shīkuretto ), since 2001
Artbook Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Vagabond (Manga)
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