YÅ«ji Iwahara

Yuji Iwahara (Japanese岩 原 裕 二, Iwahara Yuji; * 19xx in Memanbetsu, Hokkaidō, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist.

Biography

After completing his art studies, he wanted to join a video game company. In the 90 years he sent the manga magazine Afternoon a manga and was awarded the prestigious 1994 Shiki Award for a "good work". In the same year were awarded, among other things Hitoshi Ashinano ( Yokohama Kaidashi Kiko ) and Tsutomu Nihei ( Blame! ). In 1995 he took part once again, as in the years 1996 and 1997. During those years, he won the main prize and his 1996 and 1997 work sent Hebi and Ōkami no Hitomi appeared in October 1996 and in February 1997 in the afternoon. The next release, another short story, followed in July 1998 with Tetsu no Seiki in RPG Magazine.

His first longer manga, however, he published until July 1999, when he published the first chapter of his loosely based on a video game -based manga series Koudelka at the Ace -Next magazine. Koudelka takes place in 1899 and tells the story of a twenty -year-old girl who escapes from a mental hospital and meets on the run to Joshua, who goes with her to London, where it happens strange. Iwahara closed the 500 -page manga from in September 2000 in order to devote himself to a different projects: Chikyu Misaki, which was also published from 2000 to 2001 at the Ace Next, and in contrast to previous work Iwaharas worked a lot with cuteness, but also some more serious scenes included. His three short first editions from 1996 to 1998 brought the Kadokawa Shoten Publishing - 2001 also out anthology.

After the draftsman, who mainly works in his illustrations with the computer had finished the two series, he joined the publishing and recorded King of thorns, his breakthrough in Japan. The fantasy manga, which tells of the threat to humanity by a strange illness and the survival of a small group that is Iwaharas first and only work that has been translated into German. Previously Chikyu Misaki had already appeared in the U.S. and Koudelka in Italy. During and after the release of King of thorns, with its over 900 pages so far longest manga, he was always shorter comics for various magazines, such as the two four-sided work Hyōchaku buttai X Champion RED and Yokoso! Meito yanagi no yu for Comic Dengeki Daio and the 32 -page Keita no tsuri for Comic Beam. Currently Yuji Iwahara works that illustrated also video games and novels, again for his old publisher Kadokawa Shoten and pencils Gakuen Sosei: Nekoten, published since the July 2006 issue in Champion RED magazine!.

Works

  • Hebi (蛇), 1996
  • Ōkami no Hitomi (狼 の 瞳), 1997
  • Tetsu no Seiki (鉄 の 世紀), 1998
  • Koudelka (クーデルカ, Kūderuka ), 1999-2000
  • Chikyu Misaki (地球 美 纱 树), 2001-2002
  • King of Thorns (いばらの王, ibara no ō ), 2002-2005
  • Hyōchaku buttai X (漂着 物体X ), 2004
  • Yokoso! Meito yanagi no yu (ようこそ!名 湯 柳 の 湯. ), 2005
  • Keita no tsuri (ケイタ の 釣り), 2006
  • Gakuen Sosei: Nekoten! (学园 创世 猫 天! ), Since 2006
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