Shinichi Fukuda
Japanese manga artist
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Shinichi Fukuda (福田 晋一, Fukuda Shin'ichi) is a Japanese manga artist. After winning the 23rd Ace Newcomer Manga Awards Encouragement Award and creating the serialized manga Shibaraku (2009–?) and Momoiro Meloic (2012–2016), she later created My Dress-Up Darling (2018–2025).
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- Shibaraku (2009–?)
- Momoiro Meloic (2012–2016)
- My Dress-Up Darling (2018–2025)
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Biography
Fukuda created numerous one-shots for Kadokawa's Monthly Shōnen Ace magazine, and in 2006, she won the Encouragement Award at the 23rd Ace Newcomer Manga Awards.[1] She also contributed to The Recital of Haruhi Suzumiya (2009)[2] and the Summer Wars Official Comic Anthology (2010).[3]
Fukuda made her serial debut with Shibaraku , centered on a boy living in a dystopian world seeking revenge for the death of his mentor.[1] It premiered in Monthly Shōnen Ace's first 15th anniversary issue, released in October 2009,[4] and two tankobon volumes were released.[1] Abema Times remarked that its action sequences "give it a unique appeal".[1] From 2012 to 2016, she released another serialized manga, in this case in Shōnen Gahōsha's Young King: Momoiro Meloic , a romantic comedy about a love triangle involving a construction worker and her younger sister; Abema Times remarked that the work's character designs subsequently inspired My Dress-Up Darling.[1] In January 2015, she held her first autograph session at Tsutaya Sangenjaya, open to those who got tickets free with a purchase of Momoiro Meloic's volume 6.[5]
In January 2018, Fukuda launched her next serialized manga My Dress-Up Darling, a romantic comedy between a hina dollmaker and a gyaru.[6] It serialized in Square Enix's Young Gangan until March 2025.[7] The manga subsequently rose to popularity, being ranked sixth in the 2019 Next Manga Award print manga category and sixteenth in the 2010 edition of Kono Manga ga Sugoi!.[8][9]
In 2020, she was one of the co-recipients for the Men's Comic Prize at NTT Solmare's "Minna ga Erabu!! Denshi Comic Taishō 2020", winning it for My Dress-Up Darling.[10] The work also received an anime television adaptation and a television drama adaptation,[11] as well as a manga spin-off titled My Dress-Up Darling XOXO!.[12] She recalled in an interview with Comic Natalie that she cried when she saw the first two episodes of the anime before they premiered; spending thirteen hours watching them repeatedly.[13]
Fukuda also designed the main visual for the manga's fifth anniversary exhibition, held at Matsuya Ginza in August 2023.[14] Her manga had surpassed 12 million copies in circulation by November 2024,[15] and by October 2025, it had reached 15 million.[16]
Several social media users who met Fukuda at autograph signings have confirmed that she is female, with one fan remarking that "she has such a cute voice that it sounds like she might be a voice actress".[1] Outside of autograph appearances, several fans had theorized she was female due to her accurate portrayals of feminine psychology and her delicate art style.[1]
Works
- Shibaraku (2009)
- Momoiro Meloic (2012–2016)
- My Dress-Up Darling (2018–2025)