Masakazu Ishiguro
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- Seiun Award for Best Comic
- Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award
- Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Best Manga for Male Readers
| Masakazu Ishiguro 石黒正数 | |
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| Born | September 8, 1977 Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan |
| Area | Manga artist |
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Masakazu Ishiguro (Japanese: 石黒正数, Hepburn: Ishiguro Masakazu; born September 8, 1977) is a Japanese manga artist. He debuted in 2000 with the one-shot Hero prior to launching And Yet the Town Moves in 2005, which won the Seiun Award for Best Comic and an Excellence Award at the Japan Media Arts Festival. In 2018, he launched Heavenly Delusion, which topped the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook's list of the top manga for male readers.
Ishiguro was born in Fukui on September 8, 1977.[1][2] Ishiguro was fond of Fujiko Fujio's works growing up, especially Doraemon. When Ishiguro was in middle school, his dad rented Akira from a rental store and watched it with Ishiguro, who cites it as a major influence over his work.[3] Ishiguro later said that growing up he felt that becoming a manga artist was "the only way to go".[4] Ishiguro eventually graduated from Osaka University of Arts in 2001.[5][6]
Just prior to graduation, Ishiguro submitted the one-shot Hero to Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon magazine, which won the Afternoon Shiki Award in 2000. Soon after, he left Monthly Afternoon and published one-shots and short series in other magazines.[3][6] In 2005, Ishiguro launched And Yet the Town Moves, which received an anime adaptation.[7] In 2018, Ishiguro returned to Monthly Afternoon with Heavenly Delusion, which also received an anime adaptation.[8]
Works
Series
| Title | Year | Magazine | Publisher(s) | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agape: Hanzai Kōshō Nin Ichi-jō Haruka (アガペ -犯罪交渉人 一乗はるか-) | 2004–2006 | Monthly Comic Flapper | Media Factory | With Jun Kashima | [9] |
| And Yet the Town Moves (それでも町は廻っている, Soredemo Machi wa Mawatteiru) | 2005–2016 | Young King OURs | Shōnen Gahōsha | [10] | |
| Nemurubaka (ネムルバカ) | 2006–2008 | Monthly Comic Ryū | Tokuma Shoten | [11] | |
| Skygrazer (外天楼, Getenrō) | 2008–2011 | Mephisto | Kodansha | [12] | |
| Kyōko to Tōsan (響子と父さん) | 2008–2010 | Monthly Comic Ryū | Tokuma Shoten | [13] | |
| Mokuyōbi no Furutto (木曜日のフルット) | 2009–present | Weekly Shōnen Champion | Akita Shoten | [14] | |
| Heavenly Delusion (天国大魔境, Tengoku Daimakyō) | 2018–present | Monthly Afternoon | Kodansha | [15] | |
| Yankī Jō-chan no Futashikana Shinjitsu (ヤンキー嬢ちゃんの不確かな真実) | 2019–present | Bessatsu Shōnen Champion | Akita Shoten | [16] | |
Anthologies
| Title | Year | Publisher(s) | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present for Me | 2007 | Shōnen Gahōsha | [17] | |
| Tantei Kitan (探偵綺譚) | 2007 | Tokuma Shoten | [18] | |
| Positive Sensei (ポジティブ先生) | 2010 | Tokuma Shoten | [18] | |