Hitoshi Iwaaki
| Hitoshi Iwaaki |
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| Born |
(1960-07-28) July 28, 1960
Tokyo, Japan |
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| Nationality |
Japanese |
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Manga artist |
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| Known for |
Parasyte, Historie |
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Hitoshi Iwaaki (Japanese: 岩明 均, Hepburn: Iwaaki Hitoshi, born July 28, 1960) is a Japanese manga artist, whose works include the science-fiction/horror series Parasyte. The Mixx editions of Parasyte romanize his name as "Hitosi Iwaaki", while the Del Rey Manga editions use "Hitoshi Iwaaki".
In 1993, he received the Kodansha Manga Award for Parasyte.[1] He was a finalist for the 2005 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Grand Prize for Historie.[2] In 2010 Historie took the grand prize in the manga division of the 2010 Japan Media Arts Festival.[3]
Works
- Fuuko no Iru Mise (4 volumes, Morning 1986-1988)
- Hone no Oto (1 volume, short stories, Morning 1990, large format edition, 2003)
- Parasyte (10 volumes, Afternoon 1990-1995, Perfect Edition: 8 volumes, 2003) First published in English by Mixx, republished in English by Del Rey Manga
- Tanabata no Kuni ("The Country of Tanabata") (4 volumes, Big Comic Spirits, Perfect Edition: 2 volumes, 2003)
- Yuki no Touge, Tsurugi no Mai (2001, Kodansha)
- Heureka, (2002, Hakusensha)
- Historie, (2004-ongoing, 8 volumes as of August 2013, Afternoon)
Iwaaki also contributed a story to Neo Devilman.
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| Special
Award | | 1990s | |
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| | 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)
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| | 2010s | |
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| Award for
Excellence | |
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| Creative
Award | |
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| New Artist
Prize | |
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| Short Story
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