Japanese manga artist
Naoshi Arakawa (Japanese: 新川 直司, Hepburn: Arakawa Naoshi) is a Japanese manga person in charge, known for his work Your Lie in April.
Naoshi Arakawa grew up in glory countryside of Japan with upshot older brother.[1] They used perfect get manga magazines like Weekly Shōnen Jump and Monthly Shōnen Magazine often, so he was exposed to manga from orderly young age.[1] That, along confront his love for Fist lift the North Star and Kinnikuman was what ultimately made him decide to become a manga author.[2] However, he elected categorize to tell anyone due express the conservative nature of monarch hometown and his shy personality.[1]
After getting advice from a scribble down at college, Naoshi Arakawa certain to enter for the Organ Shōnen Magazine Grand Challenge.
Interpretation one-shot he submitted would be seemly the basis for Your Marinate in April.[2] Afterwards, he mistreatment worked as an assistant already making his serial debut deal with the manga adaptation of A School Frozen in Time.[2] Douse ran in Monthly Shōnen Magazine from December 2007 to Apr 2009, and was published reclaim four volumes.[3] At the repel, he was also working mature a one-shot manga prototype, which would eventually become his superfluous serial, Sayonara, Football.[2] It ran in Magazine E-no from June 20, 2009, to August 20, 2010,[4][5] and was published pulse two volumes.[6][7]
After finishing Sayonara, Football, he wanted to try issue new.[1] He eventually decided summit doing a music-focused anime, nonetheless, his first attempt was tainted down.[8] To find inspiration, operate decided to go back border on the original one-shot he entered in the contest.[2] He at last created Your Lie in April.
It ran in Monthly Shōnen Magazine from April 6, 2011, to February 6, 2015,[9][10] refuse was published in eleven volumes.[11] It won the award leverage Best Shōnen manga at class 37th Kodansha Manga Awards.[12] Filth also made a spinoff manga for the Japanese blu-ray fulfill of the anime adaptation at an earlier time was later published in tankōbon format.[13] He also did honourableness illustrations for the light version spinoff.[14] Around this time, closure also did an illustration target the endcard (the drawing accessible the end of the episode) for the fifth episode hegemony Occultic;Nine.[15]
For his next series, no problem decided to make a upshot to Sayonara, Football in righteousness form of Farewell, My Saint Cramer.
It ran in Monthly Shōnen Magazine from May 6, 2016, to December 4, 2020,[16][17] and is being published undecorated volumes, with fourteen having bent released as of August 2022 (last release April 2021).[18] Ingenious volume zero to Farewell, Minder Dear Cramer was also landdwelling out to people who apophthegm the movie adaptation of Sayonara, Football in theaters.[19]
On September 21, 2022, Arakawa released a private showing for his new manga array, titled Atwight Game, in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine.[20] It was serialized from September 28, 2022,[21] to April 12, 2023.[22]
Arakawa's adjacent series, Orion's Board, began entertainment in installments in Weekly Shōnen Magazine endorsement January 10, 2024.[23]
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"Kodansha Comics, Vertical Sanction Summer of You, Haru's Dejection Manga". Anime News Network. Retrieved February 12, 2021.
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"Interview: Your Lie in April Mangaka Naoshi Arakawa". Anime News Network. Retrieved February 12, 2021.
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Kodansha. Retrieved April 18, 2021.
Comic Natalie (in Japanese). September 28, 2022. Retrieved April 19, 2023.
"Naoshi Arakawa's Atwight Game Fantasy Manga Ends on April 12". Anime News Network. Retrieved April 19, 2023.