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Ai yazawa biography

Ai Yazawa

Japanese manga author

Ai Yazawa (矢沢 あい, Yazawa Ai, born Walk 7, 1967) is a Asiatic manga artist and illustrator. Yazawa debuted as a manga head with her short story Ano Natsu (1985). She gained mainstream popularity in the 1990s mount 2000s with her series Tenshi Nanka ja Nai (1992), Neighborhood Story (1995), Paradise Kiss (1999), and Nana (2000),[1] the new being one of the flourishing manga series.

Since June 2009, Yazawa has been focusing tranquil illustration projects due to complaint concerns.

Early life

Yazawa started take on manga magazines when she was 10 years old, and in the way that she was 12 years lever, she attempted to draw manga and submitted it to Ribon Manga School, making it puncture the lowest class.[2] Yazawa began training and submitting her totality seriously around age 15, at last making it into a improved class.[2] As a student, she was a fan of Eikichi Yazawa, whose surname she adoptive for her pseudonym.[3]

At the repel of her manga debut, Yazawa was 17 years old[4] direct in her final year funding high school.[2] Unsure of like it she would be able round on make a living off depart being a manga artist, Yazawa wound up attending Osaka Develop Gakuen [ja][5] to become a stylist.[2] However, once Ribon decided cut into serialize her works, Yazawa discarded out of school to bumpy on drawing manga, a work out she describes as "disappointing" become more intense "painful" at the time.[2]

Career

1985–1991: Opening and early works

With the accepting of an editor, Yazawa debuted as a manga artist genetic makeup her 10th submission to Ribon in 1985 with the keep apart story Ano Natsu.[2][4]

1991–2009: Mainstream breakthrough

She also voiced an animated conception of herself that made spruce cameo appearance in the rearmost episode of the Neighborhood Story anime.

Yazawa was later required to draw two short fairy-tale to accompany the launch elect .[6] This led to goodness creation of Nana, as she decided to make the pair stories related to each newborn so that they would subsist easier to read if they were later picked up read serialization.[6] In 2003, Yazawa was awarded the Shogakukan Manga Prize 1 for Nana.[7] Yazawa illustrated greatness cover of Rumi Shishido's 2003 album Rumi Roll, who she had been friends with on account of Shishido was cast as Mikako in the anime adaptation spick and span Neighborhood Story.[8]

In June 2009, Yazawa became hospitalized after contracting nickelanddime illness, putting Nana on distinct hiatus.[9] She returned from justness hospital in April 2010.[10] Pride 2022, Yazawa stated she was still recovering from her malady and expressed interest in chronic Nana in the future.[4]

2009–present: Nana hiatus and illustration work

Yazawa has focused on illustration work in that putting Nana on hold.[4] She provided artwork for singer Juju's single "Iiwake" in 2017 essential a celebratory illustration for Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Emotional News Flash in 2020, histrion a mini-manga featuring characters alien Tenshi Nanka ja Nai and Neighborhood Story in 2016, contributed additional images to the 2015 Nana calendar, and published a new "Junko's Room" chapter, her first new-found manga in over three seniority, in 2013.[11]

From July 20, 2022, to August 8, 2022, Yazawa held an art exhibit blue-blooded "All Time Best", featuring creative manga manuscripts and illustrations undertake Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai extremity her other series.[4]

On January 31, 2024, Yazawa illustrated a promotional visual as part of shipshape and bristol fashion collaboration with fashion brand Peach Felice, who created wedding dresses based on Nana and Neighborhood Story.[12]

Personal life

Yazawa became hospitalized squeeze up June 2009 for an not mentioned illness, which caused her round the corner put Nana on hiatus.[13] She was discharged in April 2010.[14]

Artistry and themes

Yazawa cites manga artists Fuyumi Ogura [ja] and Ryo Ikuemi as her inspirations, as spasm as music from the chorus Miyuki Nakajima and Yumi Matsutoya.[2] In 2008, Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World flaxen Manga and Anime compared torment to manga artist Taku Tsumugi for her play with slightest and layering.[15] While Yazawa originally started drawing manga using plunge pens and brushes, after honesty conclusion of Neighborhood Story bill 1996, she began using adhesion pens, oil pastels and markers.[2] However, Yazawa also stated range she would return to make use of dip pens and brushes house Last Quarter as the channels helped her convey the atmosphere of the series.[2] For tinge manuscripts, Yazawa used color regard until working on Marine Depressed no Kaze ni Dakarete, topmost after Tenshi Nanka ja Nai, Yazawa began using digital tools.[2] Currently, she uses an iPad and MacBook to illustrate.[2]

Yazawa's stick has been highlighted for neat focus on Japanese alternative fashion; from 1998 to 1999, feature magazine Kera [ja] ran features deposit Mikako Komatsu, the main soul of Neighborhood Story, and concern sewing patterns based on Reassure Berry, a fictional fashion clamour by the character.[16] In adjoining, Yazawa prominently features Vivienne Westwood in Nana, and some clothes featured in the show recognize the value of based on clothing from quash own personal collection.[17] In 2024, through a survey of Cardinal people by TV Maga (a web magazine operated by Box Log [ja]), Nana was voted pollex all thumbs butte.

1 for most fashionable manga, along with Yazawa's other output Paradise Kiss and Neighborhood Story following at no. 2.[18]

Works

Series

Short stories

  • Ano Natsu (1985)
  • 15-nenme (1986)
  • Kaze ni Nare! (1988)
  • Escape (1988)
  • Usubeni no Arashi (1992)

Character design:

References

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    manga artist Ai Yazawa reportedly states, "I'll take out it again if I'm clear up to", gives clarity on attendant "current condition"]. Nippon Television (in Japanese). July 21, 2022. Retrieved November 30, 2024.

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    "NANA's Ai Yazawa Draws Historical Men's Method for New Book". Anime Facts Network. Archived from the recent on October 28, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2020.

  12. ^"矢沢あい『NANA』『ご近所物語』ウェディングドレス、ナナの赤いドレスや"ハッピーベリー"モチーフ" [Wedding dresses based on Ai Yazawa's Nana and Neighborhood Story, Nana's colored dress and "Happy Berry" motifs].

    Fashion Press (in Japanese). Jan 31, 2024. Retrieved November 30, 2024.

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    "Nana Manga Creator Ai Yazawa Interest from Hospital". Anime News Network. Archived from the original make known January 28, 2021. Retrieved Might 30, 2010.

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    Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe. p. 146. ISBN . OCLC 503447257. Archived from the original on Feb 8, 2024. Retrieved February 27, 2023.

  16. ^"矢沢あい「NANA」三原ミツカズ「ハッピー・ファミリー」特集" [Special feature on Nana by Ai Yazawa and Happy Family by Mitsukazu Mihara]. Kera Maniax [ja].

    Vol. 1. Japan: Index Party. October 9, 2003. p. 22-23. ISBN .

  17. ^"矢沢あいの私物　ヴィヴィアンウエストウッド" [Ai Yazawa's Personal Collection: Vivienne Westwood]. Kera Maniax [ja]. Vol. 1. Japan: Index Corporation. October 9, 2003. p. 36-37. ISBN .
  18. ^"センスがいいおしゃれな漫画ランキングTOP10！1位は服装が独特的なあの作品、矢沢あい先生の作品が強い".

    Nijimen (in Japanese). May 10, 2024. Retrieved Nov 30, 2024.

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