Daisuke Igarashi
Daisuke Igarashi (Japanese五十 岚 大 介, Igarashi Daisuke, born April 2, 1969 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist.
Biography
Igarashi studied at the Tama Art University. He took part in the winter of 1993 when Shiki talent competition of the manga magazine Afternoon and won it with his short story Ohayashi ga kikoeru hi, which then appeared in the February 1994 issue of Afternoon and became its first publication as a professional artist. This was followed by additional work for Afternoon.
His first long manga series was entitled Hanashippanashi and appeared in the afternoon from July 1994 to August 1996. You consists of several separate stories that represent all the people in the foreground, encounter the supernatural in their everyday beings and become a lasting influence through this. The approximately 490 -page comic book series was released by Kodansha publishing house in three anthologies. Another anthology of some of his short stories, which he has drawn for Afternoon, was published in 2002 in Kodansha under the title Soratobi tamashii.
From June 2003 to January 2005 appeared in the manga magazine Ikki another manga series from his pen, Majo (Eng. " witch "). Also the manga consists of several unrelated stories. In Majo it provides women with supernatural abilities, witches, in the foreground. The stories take place in different parts of the world, both in Austria and in Japan. For Majo, which was published in the Shogakukan publishing in two anthologies, Igarashi won the 2004 Japan Media Arts Festival in the eighth the price for excellence, the French translation was nominated in 2007 at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d' Angoulême as " best album ".
From 2004 to 2005 appeared to Afternoon Igarashi's manga Little Forest on stories about the everyday life in rural areas of Japan. For Little Forest he was nominated for the 2006 Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize -.
He steered the band Japan in a story. Japan was released in 2006 as part of the Nouvelle La Manga Movement of the French comic artist Frédéric Boilet simultaneously in four languages and includes seventeen works of Japanese and French cartoonist.
Since February 2006, he draws on a further series of Ikki, Kaiju no Kodomo. It's about a girl who encounters two boys who grew up in the sea with dugongs and above-average long can stay under water. The manga was nominated in 2008 and 2009 for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize -.
Style
His style is often compared to Hayao Miyazaki. Miyazaki's film My Neighbor Totoro is one of his biggest inspirations.
Igarashi treated primarily environmental issues, which he combines with supernatural elements. His fascination with nature and the will to express them in his works, Igarashi returns to his childhood, where he often played in hundreds of years old trees next to an ancient temple. " When I was playing every day in the midst of these trees, I was overwhelmed by her beauty, and I wanted to try to bring some of that beauty on paper. That's how I started. "
Igarashi's work has been translated into Chinese, French, Italian and Spanish. The manga artist Yuki Urushibara, known for Mushishi, was influenced by him.
Works
- Ohayashi ga kikoeru hi (お 囃子 が 聞こえる 日), 1994
- Hanashippanashi (はなし っぱなし), 1994-1996
- Soratobi tamashii (そらトび タマシイ), 1998
- Kuma Koroshi shin nusumi taro no namida (熊 殺し 神 盗み 太郎 の 涙), 1999
- Sunakake (すなかけ), 2000
- Le Pain et le Chat, 2002
- Majo (魔女), 2003-2005
- Little Forest (リトル·フォレスト, Ritoru Foresuto ), 2004-2005
- Kaiju no Kodomo (海獣 の 子供), since 2006