Akiko Higashimura
Encyclopedia
is a Japanese
manga artist
from Miyazaki, Japan. Higashimura debuted in the Japanese seinen
manga
magazine Weekly Morning
. Higashimura later became more notable for her work on Kisekae Yuka-chan which debuted in YOU magazine. Recently she made a one-shot for the magazine Jump SQ. She has been nominated thrice for the Manga Taishō
: in 2008 for Himawari: Kenichi Legend
, in 2009 for Mama wa Temparist, and in 2011 for Omo ni Naitemasu.
Japanese people
The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...
manga artist
Mangaka
is the Japanese word for a comic artist or cartoonist. Outside of Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese...
from Miyazaki, Japan. Higashimura debuted in the Japanese seinen
Seinen
is a subset of manga that is generally targeted at a 20–30 year old male audience, but the audience can be older with some manga aimed at businessmen well into their 40s. In Japanese, the word Seinen means "young man" or "young men" and is not suggestive of sexual matters...
manga
Manga
Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...
magazine Weekly Morning
Weekly Morning
is a weekly Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Kodansha, aimed at adult men. It debuted in 1982 as and is also known as simply .- Series running every week :- Series running every other week :...
. Higashimura later became more notable for her work on Kisekae Yuka-chan which debuted in YOU magazine. Recently she made a one-shot for the magazine Jump SQ. She has been nominated thrice for the Manga Taishō
Manga Taishō
The is an annual Japanese manga award.-First iteration:In the inaugural edition of the award in 2008, twelve manga were nominated and the winner was Gaku, by Shinichi Ishizuka.*Winner: Gaku, by Shinichi Ishizuka*Nominees:...
: in 2008 for Himawari: Kenichi Legend
Himawari: Kenichi Legend
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akiko Higashimura and serialized on the Kodansha magazine Weekly Morning. It was nominated for the first annual Manga Taishō award....
, in 2009 for Mama wa Temparist, and in 2011 for Omo ni Naitemasu.