MinetarÅ Mochizuki
Minetaro Mochizuki (Japanese望月 峰 太郎, Mochizuki Minetaro; born January 29, 1964 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist.
Career
With the short story Fool's Mate (フールズメイト, fūruzumeito ) he won the Chiba Tetsuya Prize. His first publication was in 1985, when he brought out this short story in the manga magazine Young Magazine, a mainly at adult males directing his magazine, for the Mochizuki works ever since. His first series Batashi Kingyo (バタアシ 金魚), he started in the same year, they appeared until 1988., The approximately 1,400 -page comedic manga about a high school student who joins a swimming club out of love, was a success and has been 1990 implemented as a feature film.
1990 followed in Young Magazine, the series Baikumeen (バイクメ~ン) and 1993 of the horror manga Zashiki Onna (座 敷 女). The anthology publication of Zashiki Onna, which is about a boy who is being stalked, was with sales of over 400,000 a bestseller. For the Mister Magazine Mochizuki created the manga Ocha no Ma (お 茶の間, 1992) and Samehada Otoko to Onna Momojiri (鮫肌男と桃尻女, 1994).
From 1995 to 2000 was published in Young Magazine under the title Dragon Head its most successful work. In this survive in a train accident in a tunnel only three high school students, who henceforth fight for their survival and cohesion in the tunnel and want to find out what caused the accident. Dragon Head stood in the favor of critics ( as the manga won the 1997 Kodansha Manga Award and the 2000 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize -, 2001, he was nominated for the Seiun price); Katsuhiro Ōtomo designated Mochizuki as " the most talented mangaka of his generation". The ten anthologies of comprehensive over 2,000 pages comics, which was also implemented as a feature film, have been translated into several languages and sold in Japan more than 6.5 million times.
From 2002 to March 2008 he was responsible for the series Young Magazine Maiwai (万 祝). The protagonist in this manga is a fifteen year old martial artist.