Yoshitoki Ōima
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Yoshitoki Ōima | |
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大今 良時 | |
| Born | March 15, 1989 |
| Occupation | Manga artist |
| Known for | A Silent Voice To Your Eternity |
Yoshitoki Ōima (大今 良時, Ōima Yoshitoki; born March 15, 1989) is a Japanese manga artist and writer, best known for her manga series A Silent Voice and To Your Eternity.
Ōima was born on March 15, 1989, in Ōgaki, Japan, as the third daughter of a sign language interpreter mother and has an older sister and an older brother. Due to her mother's work as a sign language interpreter, Ōima was inspired to write the A Silent Voice manga series where she got help by her mother and her sister working on the series.[1][2]
Her first manga was Mardock Scramble which was an adaptation of the same-named novel written by Tow Ubukata and was released in 2009.[2] She was also responsible for an illustration of the ending sequence of the ninth episode of Attack on Titan.[3] After her success with A Silent Voice Yoshitoki Ōima worked alongside other manga artists on a collaboration manga called Ore no 100-wame!!. In 2016 Yoshitoki Ōima released her third full manga series under the moniker To Your Eternity.
In 2015, Yoshitoki Ōima won the New Creator Prize for A Silent Voice at the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.[4] A Silent Voice was nominated for an Eisner Award a year later,[5] the Rudolf-Dirks-Award and the Max & Moritz Prize in 2017 and 2018.[6][7] In 2018 she won at French Japan Expo the Daruma d′Or Manga for A Silent Voice and the Daruma de la Meilleure Nouvelle Série for To Your Eternity.[8]
Works
- Mardock Scramble (2009–2012; serialized in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine)
- A Silent Voice (2013–2014; serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine)
- Ore no 100-wame!! (2015; alongside other manga artists)
- To Your Eternity (2016–2025; serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine)
