Hikaru Nakamura (artist)

Hikaru Nakamura
Born	(1984-04-21) April 21, 1984 Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Manga artist
Known for	Saint Young Men Arakawa Under the Bridge

Hikaru Nakamura (中村光, Nakamura Hikaru) (born April 21, 1984 in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist. She is mostly known for Saint Young Men and Arakawa Under the Bridge.

On Nikkei Entertainment's list of most successful manga artist's she ranked 9th.^[1]

Works

Arakawa Under the Bridge (荒川アンダーザブリッジ, Arakawa Andā za Burijji) (2004— Square Enix)^[2]
Saint Young Men (聖☆おにいさん, Seinto Onīsan) (2007— Kodansha)^[3]

Authority control	VIAF: 171622840 SUDOC: 156569086

Grand Prize

1990s	Fujiko Fujio for Doraemon (1997) Jiro Taniguchi and Natsuo Sekikawa for the trilogy Bocchan No Jidai (1998) Naoki Urasawa for Monster (1999)

2000s	Daijiro Morohoshi for Saiyū Yōenden (2000) Reiko Okano and Baku Yumemakura for Onmyōji (2001) Takehiko Inoue for Vagabond (2002) Fumiko Takano for The Yellow Book: A Friend Named Jacques Thibault (2003) Kyoko Okazaki for Helter Skelter (2004) Naoki Urasawa for Pluto (2005) Hideo Azuma for Disappearance Diary (2006) Ryoko Yamagishi for Terpsichora (2007) Masayuki Ishikawa for Moyashimon (2008) Fumi Yoshinaga for Ōoku: The Inner Chambers and Yoshihiro Tatsumi for A Drifting Life (2009)

2010s	Yoshihiro Yamada for Hyouge Mono (2010) Motoka Murakami for Jin and Issei Eifuku and Taiyō Matsumoto for Takemitsuzamurai (2011) Hitoshi Iwaaki for Historie (2012) Yasuhisa Hara for Kingdom (2013) Chica Umino for March Comes in Like a Lion (2014)

Special
Award

1990s	Toshio Naiki (1997) Shotaro Ishinomori (1998) Fusanosuke Natsume (1999)

2000s	Frederik L. Schodt (2000) Akira Maruyuma (2001) Shigeru Mizuki (2003) Tarō Minamoto (2004) Kawasaki City Museum (2005) Kousei Ono (2006) International Institute for Children's Literature, Osaka Prefecture (2008)

2010s	Yoshihiro Yonezawa (2010) Weekly Shōnen Jump (2012) Fujiko Fujio (A) (2014)

Award for
Excellence

Creative
Award

New Artist
Prize

Short Story
Award

Hisaichi Ishii for Gendai Shisō no Sōnanshātachi (2003)
Risu Akizuki for OL Shinkaron (2004)
Rieko Saibara for Jōkyō Monogatari and Mainichi Kaasan (2005)
Risa Itō for One Woman, Two Cats, Hey Pitan! , Onna no Mado (2006)
Hiromi Morishita for Ōsaka Hamlet (2007)
Yumiko Ōshima for Cher Gou-Gou...mon petit chat, mon petit ami (2008)
Hikaru Nakamura for Saint Young Men (2009)
Mari Yamazaki for Thermae Romae (2010)
Keisuke Yamashina for C-kyū Salaryman Kōza, Papa wa Nanda ka Wakaranai (2011)
Roswell Hosoki for Sake no Hosomichi (2012)
Yoshiie Gōda for Love of Machine (2013)
Yuki Shikawa for Onnoji (2014)