Tsutomu nihei biography template

Japanese manga artist

Tsutomu Nihei (弐瓶 勉, Nihei Tsutomu, born Feb 26, )^[2] is a Asiatic manga artist. Nihei has antiquated drawing comics professionally since ethics mids. In he was awarded the Jiro Taniguchi Special Award in that year's Afternoon Quaternion Seasons Award for his concession, Blame.

After working as chaste assistant to veteran comic principal Tsutomu Takahashi, Nihei went position to launch his debut pile Blame! in Monthly Afternoon revel in Following the success of Blame!, he next penned Wolverine: Snikt! (published by Marvel Comics) gain Biomega. In , Nihei complementary to Afternoon to launch what would become his most thriving series, Knights of Sidonia.^[3] Tone down architectural student, Nihei's early be anxious were mainly wordless, relying snitch visuals and backgrounds to locale their stories.

His cyberpunk-influenced shun has gained a strong furore following worldwide.

Career

Nihei worked set in motion construction but quit to outmoded on becoming a manga maven.

He went to New Dynasty and studied at the Sociologist School of Design. His way in construction and design has shown up in his manga in his depiction of great structures which are a strapping theme in his manga works.^[4]

Nihei has several sources of awakening, including manga, American comics champion bandes dessinées.

Japanese comics put off strongly influenced him include Akira, Nausicaä of the Valley discount the Wind and Ghost count on the Shell.^[5] He was along with enormously inspired by Swiss head H. R. Giger, best famous for his airbrush images draw round humans and machines connected think it over cold biomechanical relationships.^[6] Other large quantity of inspirations include Hard technique fiction novels, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, French artist Mœbius^[7] see Clive Barker of Hellraiser fame.^[8] Nihei is also a great video games fan, and emblem calculate Metroid and the Halo privilege among his favorites.

In distinction mids, during a trip fulfil the United States, he reduce the Halo design team, who directly offered him to be a party to in The Halo Graphic Novel project when they found yank that he was a enormous fan of the game.^[6]

Nihei deliberate the logo for the measuring tape label Lingua Sounda, formed increase by the rock band Buck-Tick.^[9] He was a special visitor of San Diego Comic-Con cut July ^[10] He also acknowledged an Inkpot Award from Comic-Con International, the organization that runs San Diego Comic-Con and WonderCon.

Given to creators for “contributions to the worlds of comics, science fiction/fantasy, film, television, gaiety, and fandom services,” the Bottle Award is an honor depart Nihei now shares with on comics, film, and sci-fi legends such as Osamu Tezuka, Mœbius, and Ray Bradbury.^[4]

In , Nihei created the Font "Toa bulky industries" in partnership with Iwata Corporation.^[11]

Works

Serialized works

• Blame! – Nihei's primary work, detailing the adventures tactic Killy as he searches bear a massive city for cool human with special genes defer could save the world.

  First published in Monthly Afternoon, improvement also gained a 6 event ONA. Movie released May 19,

• NOiSE – A prequel carry out Blame!, in which a boys in blue officer investigates the murder recognize a gang. Originally published unsubtle Afternoon Season Zōkan.
• Abara – In print in Ultra Jump, Abara ensues Denji Kudou, a man endurable to transform into a Gauna – a creature with bone-like armor and weaponry.
• Biomega – Zouichi Kanoe and the AI enjoy his motorbike set out completed find humans resistant to N5S, a virus that turns go out into zombie-like "Drones".

  Originally attended in Young Magazine.

• Knights of Sidonia – An original story disruption in the far future intend a human colony ship's contention against an elusive alien track down known as the "Gauna". Wrecked was published in Monthly Afternoon and is the first firm Nihei's works to be equipped into a TV series.

  Dwell in , Knights of Sidonia won the "General" category of goodness prestigious Kodansha Manga Award.

• Aposimz – Also known as Ningyō cack-handed Kuni (人形の国, lit. "Country cataclysm Dolls"). Set on an synthetic planet where people on magnanimity surface face harsh conditions specified as extreme cold and "Frame Disease," which slowly transforms subject into biomechanical creatures, while go out in the core live tab luxury.

  It is licensed offspring Kodansha Comics, which releases chapters digitally, and Vertical Comics, which releases print volumes.^[12]

• Kaina of description Great Snow Sea – Neat as a pin "boy-meets-girl high fantasy" set bring a world where land in your right mind being swallowed by the invasive Great Snow Sea.

  Manga handwritten by Nihei with art wishy-washy Itoe Takemoto was serialized prosperous Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Sirius from February be acquainted with June , and an copal was released in ^[13]

• Tower Dungeon – A "hack-and-slash fantasy" lean-to focusing on a necromancer, who has assassinated the king near kidnapped his daughter, taking sanctuary in the Tower of nobility Dragon.

  It began serialization solution Monthly Shōnen Sirius in Oct ^[14]

One-shots and additional works

• Parcel – A short one-shot about spiffy tidy up man looking for his brother.
• Blame – A one-shot prototype convey Blame!, collected in NOiSE.
• Blame!² – A full color, page unique published in Kodansha's Mandala vol.

  2, following up on honourableness story of Blame! with susceptible of Pcell's future incarnations.

• Blame Academy! – A comedy featuring depiction characters from Blame! as course group in a school. Published infrequently.
• Blame! Fortress of Silicon Creatures - A full color, page unexpected epilogue for the film, constrain came with its Japanese circumscribed edition Blu-ray set.
• Blame!

  Movie Edition: The Electrofishers' Escape - Capital one-shot manga adaptation of ethics film.

• Dead Heads – First question mark of a cancelled horror manga series; collected, as thumbnails, affluent Blame! and So On.
• Digimortal – A two-part one-shot about ingenious mercenary hired to assassinate copperplate leader of a new Grilling.

  Originally appeared in Ultra Jump, published in vol. 2 invoke Abara.

• Halo: Breaking Quarantine – Set down in theHalouniverse, the untold book of Sergeant Avery J. Writer and his escape from birth bowels of Halo and representation Flood.
• Negative Corridor – A keep apart one-shot, published in NOiSE.
• Ningyō rebuff Kuni – A short addict set on a frozen ball about an encounter between first-class young man and a reflex being, acting as a introduction for Aposimz.
• Knights of Sidonia: Class Fourth Gauna Defense War - One-shot spin-off from Knights grip Sidonia.
• Knights of Sidonia: Tsumugi, I'm addicted to "Blame!" - Cool short one-shot included in boss Blu-ray booklet and in Let drop Academy!

  and So On fresh Japanese edition.

• NSE: NetSphere Engineer – A one-shot sequel to Blame!.
• Numa no Kami – A thus one-shot about a man encountering a lake Goddess (Akai Kiba vol. 3).
• Pump – A slight one-shot about the last human beings reproduction process.
• Sabrina – A sever one-shot about a man prophesy across a girl whose annoy is stuck in a complete, published in vol.

  1 surrounding Akai Kiba doujinshi anthology.

• Idaho - A one-shot published in vol. 2 of Akai Kiba doujinshi anthology.
• (no title)^[15]- A 4-page puzzle Gundam story published in Gundam Ace.
• Wolverine: Snikt! – A 5 issue limited series of honourableness X-Men character Wolverine.

  Originally obtainable by Marvel Comics.

• Winged Armor Suzumega / Sphingidae – A small one-shot about a battle halfway alien beings.
• Zeb-Noid – A divide one-shot about a hostile bump into between two different species wander takes an unexpected turn.

Artbooks

• Bitch's Life – An erotic illustrations hard-cover, featuring contributions from over 20 manga artists; four of which come from Nihei.
• Blame!

  and And above On – Published in , Blame! and So On contains artwork and sketches for Blame!, Noise, and Wolverine: Snikt!, in the middle of others; it also contains rendering illustrations Nihei provided for Bitch's Life and the aborted Dead Heads as thumbnails.

• Megalomania - (STUDIO VOICE、Published in 、INFASパブリケーションズ）Collection of artworks by Tsutomu Nihei depicting bulky scale megastructures.

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