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| Name | Hitoshi Iwaaki |
| Rōmaji | Iwaaki Hitoshi |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | 54 |
| Species | Human |
| Characteristics | |
| Eye | Black |
| Hair | Black |
| Occupation | Professional Manga Artist |
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Hitoshi Iwaaki (岩明 均, Iwaaki Hitoshi), born on July, 28th 1960 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese manga artist. He is the writer and illustrator for the science fiction/horror series Kiseijuu.
Biography[]
During high school, he was reading a lot of manga by Osamu Tezuka, which inspired him to begin drawing manga himself. He worked as an assistant for manga artist Kazuo Kamimura in 1984. Later in 1985, his short story "Gomi no Umi" won the newcomer "Tetsuya Chiba Award" and was published in a special edition of Morning (magazine). Which he ended up working for Kodansha, Monthly Afternoon magazine.
In 1993, Iwaaki received the Manga Award for Parasyte. In 2010, Historie took the grand prize in the manga division of the Japan Media Arts Festival. Historie also earned him the 2012 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Grand Prize. Iwaaki won the 2020 Saito Takao Award for his work on Reiri.[1]
Works[]
Manga[]
- Fuuko no Iru Mise (4 volume, Morning 1986-1988)
- Hone no Oto (1 volume, short stories, Morning 1990, large format edition 2003)
- Kiseijuu (10 volumes, Afternoon 1990-1995, Perfect Edition: 8 volumes, 2003)
- Tanabata no Kuni ("The Country of Tanabata") (4 volumes, Big Comic, Perfect Edition: 2 volumes, 2003)
- Yuki no Touge, Tsurugi no Mai (2001, Kodansha)
- Heureka (2002, Hakusensha)
- Historie (2004-ongoing, 6 volumes as of May 2010 Afternoon)
Iwaaki also contributed a story to Neo Devilman.