Fumi Yoshinaga

Fumi Yoshinaga
よしなが ふみ
Born1971 (age 53–54)
Tokyo, Japan
NationalityJapanese
Area(s)Character design, Writer, Manga artist
AwardsTezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, Kodansha Manga Award, Shogakukan Manga Award, Japan Media Arts Festival (Excellence Prize), Sense of Gender Award, James Tiptree, Jr. Award

Fumi Yoshinaga (よしなが ふみ, Yoshinaga Fumi, born 1971) is a Japanese manga artist known for her shōjo and boys' love works.

Life

Fumi Yoshinaga was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1971. She discovered amateur manga, doujinshi, in junior high school, when a friend showed her a doujinshi depicting a romantic relationship between two male characters of Captain Tsubasa. While still in school, she hid from others that she was an otaku in order to avoid bullying.[1]

She attended Keio University in Tokyo.[citation needed] While at university, she joined a manga club in order to be able to talk to others about manga. When she read the popular manga series Slam Dunk, she was inspired to create a gay love story based on the characters of Kogure and Mitsui. She continued making doujinshi throughout her time as a student and participated in doujinshi conventions.[1][2]

Her professional career started as an addition to her activities as a doujinshi artist. She made her professional debut as a manga artist in 1994 with The Moon and the Sandals, serialized in the newly-founded Boys' Love magazine Hanaoto.[citation needed] The editor of the magazine was a friend of hers that she had met through doujinshi.[1]

She continued working for Boys' Love magazines, but eventually switched to mainstream magazines, as Boys' Love magazines had policies that artists had to include sex scenes, which she found difficult.[1]

Style and themes

Most of her romantic works center male-male romance. At a young age, she read shōjo manga depicting homosexuality, such as Patalliro!, Kaze to Ki no Uta and Hi Izuru Tokoro no Tenshi. Yoshinaga explains that she is not passionate about normative romantic storylines: "However, I can easily broaden my imagination as to stories starting from 'comradeships,' 'master-slave' relationships or the kind of friendship that becomes too passionate and then turns into romance."[1] When she creates gay storylines, she keeps in mind that gay people might read them. With her series What Did You Eat Yesterday?, she wanted to depict the daily life of a middle-aged gay couple without focusing on romance, instead putting the difficulties of living together as a couple and cooking at the center of the plot.[1]

In an interview, she said that "I want to show the people who didn't win, whose dreams didn't come true. It is not possible for everybody to get first prize. I want my readers to understand the happiness that people can get from trying hard, going through the process, and getting frustrated."[2]

Outside of her work with Japanese publishers, she also self-publishes original doujinshi on a regular basis, most notably for Antique Bakery. Yoshinaga has also drawn fan parodies of Slam Dunk, Rose of Versailles, and Legend of Galactic Heroes.

She mentions that her favourite operas are those by Mozart in the author's note of Solfege.

Reception

Of Yoshinaga's many works, several have been licensed internationally. She was also selected and exhibited as one of the "Twenty Major Manga artist Who Contributed to the World of Shōjo Manga (World War II to Present)" for Professor Masami Toku's exhibition, "Shōjo Manga: Girl Power!" at CSU-Chico.[3]

She has received several awards for her works:

Year Nominated work Category Result Notes
2002 Antique Bakery Kodansha Manga Award (Shōjo)[4] Won
2004 All My Darling Daughters Japan Media Arts Festival[5] Longlisted selected as a Jury Recommended Work (Manga Division)
2005 Ōoku: The Inner Chambers Sense of Gender Awards (Special Prize)[6] Won
2006 Ōoku: The Inner Chambers Japan Media Arts Festival (Excellence Award)[7] Won
2007 Ōoku: The Inner Chambers Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize[8] Nominated
2007 Antique Bakery Eisner Award (Best U.S. Edition of International Material — Japan)[9] Nominated English-language translation by Digital Manga Publishing
2008 Flower of Life YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens[10] Won English-language translation by Digital Manga Publishing
2008 The Moon and the Sandals YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens[11] Nominated English-language translation by Digital Manga Publishing
2008 Ōoku: The Inner Chambers Manga Taishō[12] Nominated
2008 Flower of Life Manga Taishō[12] Nominated
2008 What Did You Eat Yesterday? Manga Taishō[12] Nominated
2008 Ōoku: The Inner Chambers Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize[13] Nominated
2008 — Eisner Award (Best Writer/Artist).[14] Nominated
2009 Ōoku: The Inner Chambers Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (Grand Prize)[15] Won
2009 Ōoku: The Inner Chambers James Tiptree, Jr. Award Won English-language translation by Viz Media
2010 Ōoku: The Inner Chambers YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens[16] Won English-language translation by Viz Media
2010 Ōoku: The Inner Chambers Shogakukan Manga Award (Shōjo)[17] Won
2019 What Did You Eat Yesterday? Kodansha Manga Award (General)[18] Won

Works

One-shots

Series

Illustrations

Shōnen-ai novels

  • Garasu Zaiku no Tenshi (硝子細工の天使)
  • Kono Ame ga Yuki ni Kawaru Made (この雨が雪にかわるまで)
  • Baby Love (ベイビィラヴ)
  • Position (ポジション)
  • Innocent Sky (イノセント・スカイ)
  • Saginuma Yakkyoku de... (サギヌマ薬局で…)
  • Second Messenger (セカンドメッセンジャー)
  • Hanayakana Meikyū (華やかな迷宮)
  • Itsutsu no Oto (五つの音)
  • Kamakura saryou koimonogatari (鎌倉茶寮恋物語)
  • Usotsuki no Koi (嘘ツキの恋)
  • Muzai Sekai (無罪世界)

Miscellaneous

  • Manga wa Ima Dounatte Oru no ka (マンガは今どうなっておるのか) - A book about the state of manga today by famed manga scholar, Fusanosuke Natsume
  • Kore ga Watashitachi no DVD Best Selection 70 (これがワタシたちのDVDベストセレクション70) - Mag Garden
  • Motto! Kore ga Watashitachi no DVD Best Selection 70 (もっと!これがワタシたちのDVDベストセレクション70) - Mag-Garden
  • Unmeironsha Jyakku to Sono Aruji (運命論者ジャックとその主人) - New Japanese edition of Denis Diderot's Jacques the Fatalist and his Master
  • Ano hito to Koko Dake no Oshaberi (あのひととここだけのおしゃべり) - Interviews of selected manga artist

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f 嘉島唯 (2022-09-14). "Manga Artist Fumi Yoshinaga Talks about Her Own Works and Changes in Society: Expanding Manga Expression- TOKION". TOKION - Cutting edge culture and fashion information. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
  2. ^ a b Toku, Masami (2007) "Shojo Manga! Girls’ Comics! A Mirror of Girls’ Dreams" Mechademia 2 p. 25
  3. ^ "List of Girl's Mangaka". www.csuchico.edu. Archived from the original on 2005-11-05.
  4. ^ Joel Hahn. "Kodansha Manga Awards". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on 2007-08-16. Retrieved 2007-08-21.
  5. ^ Japan Media Arts Festival. "2004 Japan Media Arts Festival: Manga Division Jury Recommended Works". Japan Media Arts Festival Official Website (english). Archived from the original on 2012-02-15. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
  6. ^ The Japanese Association of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy. "Gender-SF 2005 SoG Awards: YOSHINAGA Fumi". The Japanese Association of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy Official Website (japanese). Retrieved 2009-05-11.
  7. ^ Japan Media Arts Festival. "2006 Japan Media Arts Festival: Excellence Prize OHOKU". Japan Media Arts Festival Official Website (english). Archived from the original on 2008-06-11. Retrieved 2008-10-22.
  8. ^ Anime News Network. "11th Tezuka Cultural Prize Nominees for Manga Announced". Retrieved 2008-10-22.
  9. ^ Comic-Con International. "MASTER NOMINEE LIST 2007 Eisner Awards". Comic-Con International Official Site. Archived from the original on 2007-08-08. Retrieved 2008-04-14.
  10. ^ YALSA. "Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2008". American Library Association Official Site. Retrieved 2008-04-14.
  11. ^ "ALA Updates Great Graphic Novel Nominations". ComiPress. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  12. ^ a b c ManTai. "Manga Taisho 2008 Nomination Announcement!". ManTai Official Blog. Archived from the original on 2008-01-27. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
  13. ^ Anime News Network. "12th Tezuka Cultural Prize Nominees for Manga Announced". Retrieved 2008-10-22.
  14. ^ Comic-Con International. "2008 Eisner Awards: 2008 Eisner Nominations Most Diverse Yet". Comic-Con International Official Site. Archived from the original on 2012-06-19. Retrieved 2008-04-14.
  15. ^ Anime News Network. "13th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Winners Announced". Retrieved 2009-04-19.
  16. ^ YALSA. "2010 Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens". American Library Association Official Site. Retrieved 2010-01-26.
  17. ^ "56th Shogakukan Manga Award Winners Announced". Retrieved 2011-01-22.
  18. ^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (May 10, 2019). "43rd Annual Kodansha Manga Awards' Winners Announced". Anime News Network. Retrieved 14 June 2019.

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