Osamu Ishiwata
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is a Japanese manga artist
. He won the 1989 Shogakukan Manga Award
for shōnen
for B.B.
The manga artist Yoshitomo Yoshimoto is his younger brother.
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...
. He won the 1989 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"...
for B.B.
B.B. (manga)
B.B. is a shōnen manga by Osamu Ishiwata. The manga ran in Shōnen Sunday from 1985 issue 24 to 1991 issue 9. The title stands for "Burning Blood" and Ishiwata's subsequent serial LOVe was a continuation of this series...
The manga artist Yoshitomo Yoshimoto is his younger brother.