Akimi Yoshida

Akimi Yoshida 吉田秋生
Born	(1956-08-12) August 12, 1956 Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Area(s)	Writer, Manga artist
Notable works	Kisshō Tennyo Sakura no Sono Banana Fish Umimachi Diary

Anime and Manga
Part of a series on

Anime History Industry Original net animation Original video animation Fansub Fandub Companies Longest series
Manga History International market Mangaka (list) Dōjinshi Scanlation Publishers Best-selling series Longest series Alternative
Demographic groups Children Shōnen Shōjo Seinen Josei
Genres Harem Magical girl Mecha Yaoi Yuri Others
Selected biographies Mitsuru Adachi Fujio Akatsuka George Akiyama Hideaki Anno Hideo Azuma Clamp Osamu Dezaki Hisashi Eguchi Tetsuo Hara Yukinobu Hoshino Ryoichi Ikegami Kunihiko Ikuhara Ken Ishikawa Shotaro Ishinomori Ikki Kajiwara Tomoharu Katsumata Yoshiaki Kawajiri Shōji Kawamori Rakuten Kitazawa Kazuo Koike Satoshi Kon Masami Kurumada Kōichi Mashimo Katsuji Matsumoto Leiji Matsumoto Hayao Miyazaki Shigeru Mizuki Hideko Mizuno Shinji Mizushima Daijiro Morohoshi Tadao Nagahama Go Nagai Shinji Nagashima Daisuke Nishio Eiichiro Oda Kyoko Okazaki Mamoru Oshii Rintaro Takao Saito Hiroshi Sasagawa Junichi Sato Sanpei Shirato Masamune Shirow Gisaburō Sugii Isao Takahata Osamu Tezuka Akira Toriyama Year 24 Group Tatsuo Yoshida
Fandom Conventions (list, attendance) Clubs Cosplay Anime music video Otaku Moe Yaoi fandom
General Omake Terminology Iconography
Anime and Manga portal

Akimi Yoshida (吉田秋生, Yoshida Akimi, born August 12, 1956) is a Japanese manga artist.

Yoshida is best known for the series Banana Fish. She twice won the Shogakukan Manga Awards for shōjo, for Kisshō Tennyo in 1984 and for Yasha in 2002.^[1] In 2007, she received an Excellence Award for manga at the Japan Media Arts Festival for Umimachi Diary.

Works

Chotto Fushigi na Geshukunin (ちょっと不思議な下宿人), 1977
California Monogatari (カリフォルニア物語), 1978–1981
Kawa yori mo nagaku yuruyaka ni (河よりも長くゆるやかに), 1983
Kisshō Tennyo (吉祥天女), 1983–1984
Sakura no Sono (櫻の園), 1985–1986
Banana Fish, 1985–1994
Lovers' Kiss (ラヴァーズ・キス), 1995–1996
Yasha (YASHA-夜叉-), 1996–2002
Eve no Nemuri (イヴの眠り), 2003–2005
Umimachi Diary (海街 diary), 2007-

References

↑ 小学館漫画賞: 歴代受賞者 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-19.

External links

Akimi Yoshida at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
Akimi Yoshida at Mangayomi
Profile at The Ultimate Manga Guide

Works by Akimi Yoshida

Kisshō Tennyo (1983–1984) Sakura no Sono (1985–1986) Banana Fish (1985–1994) Yasha (1996–2002) Eve no Nemuri (2004–2005) Umimachi Diary (2007–ongoing)

Manga Taishō

Gaku: Minna no Yama by Shinichi Ishizuka (2008) Chihayafuru by Yuki Suetsugu (2009) Thermae Romae by Mari Yamazaki (2010) March Comes in Like a Lion by Chica Umino (2011) Silver Spoon by Hiromu Arakawa (2012) Umimachi Diary by Akimi Yoshida (2013) A Bride's Story by Kaoru Mori (2014) Kakukaku Shikajika by Akiko Higashimura (2015)

Shogakukan Manga Award – Shōjo

1970s	Toward the Terra and Kaze to Ki no Uta by Keiko Takemiya (1979)

1980s	Urusei Yatsura by Rumiko Takahashi (1980) Miyuki and Touch by Mitsuru Adachi (1982) Kisshō Tennyo by Akimi Yoshida (1983) Yume no Ishibumi by Toshie Kihara (1984) Zenryaku: Milk House by Yumiko Kawahara (1985) Purple Eyes in the Dark by Chie Shinohara (1986) Boyfriend by Fuyumi Soryo (1987) Fancy Dance by Reiko Okano (1988) Papa Told Me by Nanae Haruno (1989)

1990s	Crest of the Royal Family by Chieko Hosokawa and Hajime-chan ga Ichiban! by Taeko Watanabe (1990) Makoto Call! by Kazuko Fujita (1991) Basara by Yumi Tamura (1992) Bara no Tame ni by Akemi Yoshimura (1993) Baby and Me by Marimo Ragawa (1994) Boys Over Flowers by Yoko Kamio (1995) Kanon by Chiho Saito (1996) Ceres, Celestial Legend by Yuu Watase (1997) Angel Lip by Kiyoko Arai (1998) Barairo no Ashita by Ryo Ikuemi (1999)

2000s	Red River by Chie Shinohara (2000) Kaguyahime by Reiko Shimizu and Yasha by Akimi Yoshida (2001) Nana by Ai Yazawa and Kaze Hikaru by Taeko Watanabe (2002) Love Com by Aya Nakahara (2003) Sand Chronicles by Hinako Ashihara and We Were There by Yūki Obata (2004) Sonnanja neyo by Kaneyoshi Izumi (2005) 7 Seeds by Yumi Tamura (2006) Boku no Hatsukoi o Kimi ni Sasagu by Kotomi Aoki (2007) Black Bird by Kanoko Sakurakoji (2008) Machi de Uwasa no Tengu no Ko by Nao Iwamoto (2009)

2010s	Ōoku: The Inner Chambers by Fumi Yoshinaga (2010) Pin to Kona by Ako Shimaki (2011) Piece – Kanojo no Kioku by Hinako Ashihara (2012) Kanojo wa Uso o Aishisugiteru by Kotomi Aoki (2013) Joō no Hana by Kaneyoshi Izumi (2014)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 15001053 LCCN: nr99017841 ISNI: 0000 0000 5243 9470 SUDOC: 077349466 BNF: cb14490722h (data) NDL: 00120440

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, September 27, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.