Tsukasa Abe (manga artist)
Japanese manga artist
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Tsukasa Abe (アベ ツカサ, Abe Tsukasa; born 1995[1]) is a Japanese manga artist.[2] He is from Ibaraki Prefecture.[1][3]
Tsukasa Abe | |
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アベ ツカサ | |
| Born | 1995 (age 30–31) Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan |
| Occupation | Manga artist |
| Years active | 2017–present |
| Known for | Frieren: Beyond Journey's End |
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Biography
In 2017, Abe made his debut with Kanon, published in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday S.[1]
In 2018, his work Meet Up received an honorable mention in the 82nd Shogakukan New Comic Award.[3][4] He creates his artwork digitally.[5]
In 2020, he began serializing Frieren: Beyond Journey's End in Weekly Shōnen Sunday.[6] In 2021, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End won the 14th Manga Taishō award.[7] The same year, he received the 25th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize New Creator Prize.[8] In 2023, Frieren: Beyond Journey's End was selected for the Rakuten Kobo E-book Award 2023 Comic Division "World's Must-Read! Recommended Comic" 1st place.[9] In 2024, the series won both the 69th Shogakukan Manga Award[10] and the 48th Kodansha Manga Award in the shōnen category.[11]
Works
Serializations
- Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (original story: Kanehito Yamada, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday (April 28, 2020 – present)
One-shots
- Toshokan no Mizu to Abura (図書館の水と油; 'Oil and Water in the Library') – New Generation Sunday Award, November 2015 period, Effort Award[12]
- Kanon (カノン) (Weekly Shōnen Sunday S June 2017 issue) – under the pen name Abe Shi Saku, debut work[1]
- Meet Up – 82nd (June 2018) Shogakukan New Comic Award, Shōnen Division, Honorable Mention[3]
- Satsujinki vs. Satsujinki (殺人鬼vs.殺人鬼; 'Murderer vs. Murderer') (Weekly Shōnen Sunday S March 2020 issue, special supplement "Sunday mini")
