Kiyokazu Chiba
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is a Japanese manga artist
. In 1981 he was worked as an assistant to Motoka Murakami
, and by 1988 he had won the Monthly Young Jump "Rookie of the Year" award. That same year in Shōnen Sunday
, his debut serial Akai Pegasus II Sho, the sequel to his master, Motoka Murakami's 1970s Akai Pegasus series. At the beginning of his career he signed his name with kanji
, and later changed it to hiragana
.
(written under the name (kanji) (written by Shinichi Ishihara
) (written by Yasushi Matsuda)
Mangaka
is the Japanese word for a comic artist or cartoonist. Outside of Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese...
. In 1981 he was worked as an assistant to Motoka Murakami
Motoka Murakami
is a Japanese manga artist who writes primarily shōnen manga. He won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for Gakuto Retsuden in 1982 and the Shogakukan Manga Award twice, for shōnen for Musashi no Ken in 1984 and for general manga in 1996 for Ron, serialized in Big Comic Original from 1991 to 2006...
, and by 1988 he had won the Monthly Young Jump "Rookie of the Year" award. That same year in Shōnen Sunday
Shonen Sunday
, first published on March 17, 1959, is a weekly shōnen manga magazine published in Japan by Shogakukan. Contrary to its title, Weekly Shōnen Sunday issues are released on Wednesdays.- History :...
, his debut serial Akai Pegasus II Sho, the sequel to his master, Motoka Murakami's 1970s Akai Pegasus series. At the beginning of his career he signed his name with kanji
Kanji
Kanji are the adopted logographic Chinese characters hanzi that are used in the modern Japanese writing system along with hiragana , katakana , Indo Arabic numerals, and the occasional use of the Latin alphabet...
, and later changed it to hiragana
Hiragana
is a Japanese syllabary, one basic component of the Japanese writing system, along with katakana, kanji, and the Latin alphabet . Hiragana and katakana are both kana systems, in which each character represents one mora...
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Works
(written under the name (hiragana) (written by Motoka Murakami) (written by Kazuya Kudou)- DAT 13 (written by Kaoru ShintaniKaoru Shintaniis a Japanese manga artist. Shintani is best known for his series Area 88, which is widely recognized as one of the finest aviator comic titles in the history of manga. In addition to his very popular pilot comics, Shintani has successfully ventured into science fiction, fantasy, comedy, and hentai...
) (written by Konasu Akane)
(written under the name (kanji) (written by Shinichi Ishihara
Shinichi Ishihara
is an anison singer and anime voice actor who was born on May 26, 1960 in Yamanashi Prefecture. He is famous for singing the theme songs of Kamen Rider Agito and Kyuukyuu Sentai GoGo-V among other theme songs as well as the entire soundtrack to Juukou B-Fighter.-References:...
) (written by Yasushi Matsuda)
- ODAMARI (written by Osamu Ichino) (written by Seiichi TanakaSeiichi TanakaSeiichi Tanaka is the first Japan-trained teacher of kumidaiko, or taiko, in the United States and largely regarded as the father of the art form in North America...
) (written by Fuyuki Shindou) (written by Yasushi Matsuda) (written by Yukio Kiyasu) (written by Sho Narumi)