Masami Yuki
Encyclopedia
, real name Shūji Satō is a manga artist
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Yuki graduated from Kutchan High School. He is a member of the artist group known as Headgear
. In 1991, his manga Mobile Police Patlabor received the 36th Shogakukan Manga Award
for shōnen
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Also the designer of the avatar mascot for the Vocaloid
Gumi.
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...
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Yuki graduated from Kutchan High School. He is a member of the artist group known as Headgear
Headgear (artist group)
Headgear is a group consisting of 5 writers and artists who work in the Japanese anime/manga field. The group was set up so that all the creators could retain full copyright to their work, achieve greater publicity for their work and sell their manga to anime sponsors for film production. The...
. In 1991, his manga Mobile Police Patlabor received the 36th Shogakukan Manga Award
Shogakukan Manga Award
The is one of Japan's major manga awards, sponsored by Shogakukan Publishing. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga since 1955 and features candidates from a number of publishers.The current award categories are:...
for shōnen
Shonen
The term refers to manga marketed to a male audience aged roughly 10 and up. The Kanji characters literally mean "few" and "year", respectively, where the characters generally mean "comic"...
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Works
- Aliens Next Door (1 tankōbonTankobon, with a literal meaning close to "independently appearing book", is the Japanese term for a book that is complete in itself and is not part of a series , though the manga industry uses it for volumes which may be in a series...
) - Assemble InsertAssemble Insertis a 1985 manga series by Masami Yuki . The main character is a young would-be idol singer and high school student, Maron Namikaze, who has superhuman strength. She battles a mecha organization, Demon Seed, which has been terrorizing Tokyo. The manga was adapted into a 2 episode anime OVA in 1989...
- Birdy the MightyBirdy the Mightyis a manga by Masami Yuki, who is best known for producing the long-running series Patlabor. His initial work on the series was quickly abandoned, but it was made into an anime, which was produced and, on the last episode, scripted by Yoshiaki Kawajiri, who is known for anime titles such as Vampire...
- Original version: 1 tankōbon
- Remake: 18 tankōbon as of April 2008
- Doyō Wide Satsujin Jiken (1 tankōbon, co-authored with Miki ToriMiki Tori, also known as Micky Bird or Mickey Bird, is a Japanese manga artist, character designer, essayist, and screenplay writer. Tori has won multiple awards for his work, including two Seiun Awards and one Bungeishunjū Manga Award...
)- Doyō Wide Satsujin Jiken: Kyōto Waraningyō Satsujin Jiken (1 tankōbon)
- Jaja Uma Grooming Up!Jaja Uma Grooming Up!is a manga series by Masami Yuki. It depicts the story of Shunpei Kuze, a high-school student unsure of the future until he takes a motorcycle ride to Hokkaidō....
(26 tankōbon, 14 bunkoban) - Kyūkyoku Chōjin RKyukyoku Chojin Ris a manga series written and illustrated by Masami Yuuki. It was serialised in Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday from 1985 to 1987. The series revolved around a teenage robot named R. Ichiro Tanaka. Later, it was revealed that R's creator Dr. Narihara only built R for a failed attempt to take over the...
(5 bunkobon) - Magical☆Lucy
- Mariana Densetsu (3 tankōbon)
- Pangea no Musume Kunie (5 tankōbon)
- Parody World
- Mobile Police PatlaborPatlaborPatlabor also known as , is an anime and manga franchise created by Headgear, a group consisting of director Mamoru Oshii, writer Kazunori Itō, mecha designer Yutaka Izubuchi, character designer Akemi Takada, and manga artist Masami Yūki.The popular franchise included a manga, a TV series, two OVA...
(22 tankōbon, 11 wideban, 11 bunkoban) - Yamato Takeru no Bōken
- Yūki Masami no Hateshinai Monogatari (2 tankōbon)
Also the designer of the avatar mascot for the Vocaloid
Vocaloid
is a singing synthesizer application, with its signal processing part developed through a joint research project between the Pompeu Fabra University in Spain and Japan's Yamaha Corporation, who backed the development financially—and later developed the software into the commercial product...
Gumi.
External links
- Yūki Masami Official Site (in Japanese)