Ai Yazawa

Ai Yazawa (Japanese矢沢 あい, Yazawa Ai, born March 7, 1967 in the Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist.

She published her first manga in 1985 and recorded in the following years almost exclusively for the Japanese manga magazine Ribon. In the 1980s, several paperbacks appeared from her pen, a greater success she succeeded, however, in 1995 with Gokinjo Monogatari. This work was also laid on German and filmed in a 50 - episode anime series. A continuation recorded Yazawa two years after completion of the series Paradise Kiss. Paradise Kiss also received an implementation in an animated series, but was not published as Gokinjo Monogatari in looking at younger girls Ribon magazine, but in a Japanese fashion magazine.

2000 appeared to her manga Nana for the first time in Japan. It is about the lives of two girls named Nana and mainly describes the love relationship between the two. Yazawa ended up with an even greater success than in the 1990s with Gokinjo Monogatari and still working on the series, which has now reached a volume of more than 2000 pages, and in 2003 the best-selling manga in Japan was.

The success of Yazawas manga can be traced back to their drawing style. The people in the comics are mostly thin, have long legs and are fashionably dressed. That might be the reason probably that she created the design for the manga Princess Ai. This is drawn in collaboration with the singer Courtney Love by Misaho Kujiradou.

Works

Awards

  • 2003: 48th Shogakukan Manga Award for Nana
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