Yuki Urushibara

Yuki Urushibara (Japanese漆 原 友 纪, Urushibara Yuki; actually吉 山 友 纪Yuki Yoshiyama; born January 23, 1974 in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist, whose works can be assigned to the His - genus. A unifying theme of their works is his own words, the " riddle of existence."

Biography

For the first time in middle school she drew comics, then still parodies of well-known works. Your first manga as a professional illustrator, she published under her real name in the bouquet, a manga magazine for young girls ( shōjo ), and under the pseudonym Soyogo Shima (志摩 冬青, Shima Soyogo ) in the anime magazine Fanroad.

After graduating in 1998, the illustrator sent the Afternoon magazine a short story entitled Mushishi and won for this the Afternoon Shiki price. When the short manga was then published in the afternoon, she decided to expand this short story in a long manga series. From 1999, a revised version of Mushishi appeared in a sister magazine of the Afternoon, in the Afternoon Season Zōkan in which, among other things, Hitoshi Ashinanos position was published at the same time. After Afternoon Season Zōkan was discontinued in 2002, Mushishi moved to the afternoon where the manga was a huge success and continues to appear. The manga already includes more than 1,500 pages, is translated into English, among others, and sold in Japan by 2006 more than 2.5 million times. Mushishi that the prize for excellence in the Japan Media Arts Festival and in 2006 was awarded the Kodansha Manga Prize in 2003, is about a white-haired man with only one eye who helps people with their problems with Mushi, creatures neither animal nor herbal substances. Mushishi has been implemented as an anime television series and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo as a real movie.

In September 2004 brought the Kodansha publishing house, in which Urushibara published all of their work, the paperback filament (フィラメント, Firamento ) with several of her short stories out. In the band among other things, the two works Meikyu Neko and Misaki de bus o orita Hito are included in addition to the first version of Mushishi. In Meikyu Neko is a girl in a huge residential complex, which is almost like a maze lost and met a cat, which is said, they help all those who get lost in the system. Misaki de bus o orita Hito plays on the coast of a peninsula, on the one family for generations has a small shop. The current owner wants to close the store and remembers back to her childhood, when many people take the bus came to the coast in order to hinunterzustürzen the cliffs.

Does it affect, in addition to the scenery of the Seto Inland Sea, where she grew up, and the manga artist Daisuke Igarashi.

Works (selection)

• Mushishi (虫 师), since 1999
• Yuki no Kan (雪 の 冠)
• Kaseki no Ie (化石 の 家)
• Shōkei Zatsu Tobari (小 景 雑 帐)
• Meikyu Neko (迷宫 猫)
• Misaki de bus o orita Hito (岬 で バス を 降り た ひと), 2004