YÅ«ji Aoki
Yuji Aoki (Japanese青木 雄 二, Yuji Aoki, born June 9, 1945 in Ōe, Kyoto Prefecture (today Fukuchiyama ); † 5 September 2003 in Kobe ) was a Japanese manga artist.
Biography
Aoki worked from 1964 when railway operation Sanyo Electric Railway. In 1969 he resigned and worked in various jobs, so. Approximately as a clerk in a city hall and in a pachinko shop Besides, he drew comics. In 1970, he won the short story Yatai (屋 台) a Young Investigator Award of the manga magazine Big Comic. Publications or a commercial debut as a manga artist remained out, however, since he work at a design firm dedicated himself until it filed for bankruptcy.
Only in 1989 he went back to the professional drawing comics and attended a junior Comic Contest of Afternoon magazine. He won this and so received the Shiki Award. He then had the opportunity to publish a work, and did so in 1990 in a sister magazine of the Afternoon, Morning, which is aimed at an adult readership and at that time had a circulation of over one million.
This work was the first episode of his manga series Naniwa Kin'yūdō, on which he worked until 1997 continued weekly for Morning. The existing of over 4200 pages Series represents the young Tatsuyuki Haibara in the foreground, who, after his previous employer went bankrupt, begins with a private loan companies. The various dramas of the extremely poor borrowers are explained as well. Naniwa Kin'yūdō became a surprise hit in Japan. The value written in the Kansai dialect his manga was published in nineteen books, was made into a television series and reprinted several times. Naniwa Kin'yūdō sold in Japan over thirteen million copies. In 1992, Aoki for the manga Kodansha Manga Award, the 1998 Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize -.
After the completion of Naniwa Kin'yūdō the author pulled back and drew no further comic series. Instead, he wrote the story for the comic series Kabachitare! (カバチタレ! ), Which then followed one of his assistants in the drawing, and published essays. In 1997 Kodansha published the book in Sasurai in which some of his earlier short stories were reprinted.
Yuji Aoki died in 2003 at the age of 58 years to lung cancer.
Style
Aoki's character design is kept simple and caricature. His bizarre, block-like drawing style represents backgrounds and objects in detail and realistically represents the panel layout is conventional.
The manga artist was a follower of Marxism and had incorporated this belief into his comics. One of his major inspirations for Naniwa Kin'yūdō Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment was. He said he had read the novel before the start of the series at least five times. "Like a Dostoevsky, the author draws attention to livelihoods on the edge of our society and shows that these people have a complex history. "
Works
- Naniwa Kin'yūdō (ナニワ 金融 道), 1990-1997
- Sasurai (さすらい), 1997