Yumi Hotta

Yumi Hotta (Japaneseほった ゆみ, Hotta Yumi, real name :堀 田 由 美, born 15 October 1957 Aichi, Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist and author. Her biggest success is Hikaru no Go.

Career

Your first manga they published in 1985 together with her ​​husband in the manga magazine Manga Time Family, which specializes in Yonkoma manga. In 1987 she won a prize from the Big Comic magazine. She then wrote some mangas about horse racing for His and Josei magazines.

End of the 90s she put the Shueisha publishing a story that dealt with young Go players. It was enthusiastically received. The publisher could win Takeshi Obata as a draftsman for the story. In 1999 Hikaru no Go in Shōnen Jump magazine. After a short time the manga was a great success, was made into an anime series, translated into numerous languages ​​, won the Shogakukan Manga Award and the Osamu - Tezuka Cultural Prize, and was the catalyst of a go " boom " in Japan.

Her second manga for Shonen Jump magazine, Yuto, acts of skaters. However, Yuto could not build on the success of Hikaru no Go.

Works

  • Hikaru no Go (ヒカルの碁), 1999-2003, together with Takeshi Obata
  • Yuto (ユート), 2005, together with Kei Kawano
  • Author
  • Mangaka
  • Japanese
  • Born in 1957
  • Woman
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