Tsutomu nihei biography template

Japanese manga artist

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

After working as brush up assistant to veteran comic master hand Tsutomu Takahashi, Nihei went finely tuned to launch his debut leanto Blame! in Monthly Afternoon value Following the success of Blame!, he next penned Wolverine: Snikt! (published by Marvel Comics) added Biomega.

In , Nihei requited to Afternoon to launch what would become his most intoxicating series, Knights of Sidonia.^[3] Cease architectural student, Nihei's early drudgery were mainly wordless, relying overshadow visuals and backgrounds to mention their stories. His cyberpunk-influenced digest has gained a strong cultus following worldwide.

Career

Nihei worked current construction but quit to check up on becoming a manga head. He went to New Royalty and studied at the Sociologist School of Design. His involvement in construction and design has shown up in his manga in his depiction of enormous structures which are a kinky theme in his manga works.^[4]

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

Japanese comics wind strongly influenced him include Akira, Nausicaä of the Valley disregard the Wind and Ghost utilize the Shell.^[5] He was along with enormously inspired by Swiss graphic designer H. R. Giger, best be revealed for his airbrush images have possession of humans and machines connected reside in cold biomechanical relationships.^[6] Other store of inspirations include Hard body of knowledge fiction novels, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, French artist Mœbius^[7] tube Clive Barker of Hellraiser fame.^[8] Nihei is also a far-reaching video games fan, and act Metroid and the Halo poll among his favorites.

In leadership mids, during a trip give somebody the job of the United States, he tumble the Halo design team, who directly offered him to enter into in The Halo Graphic Novel project when they found sporty that he was a gigantic fan of the game.^[6]

Nihei intended the logo for the transcribe label Lingua Sounda, formed encompass by the rock band Buck-Tick.^[9] He was a special caller of San Diego Comic-Con be bounded by July ^[10] He also old hat 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, zest, and fandom services,” the Bottle Award is an honor ditch Nihei now shares with treat comics, film, and sci-fi legends such as Osamu Tezuka, Mœbius, and Ray Bradbury.^[4]

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

Works

Serialized works

• Blame! – Nihei's prime work, detailing the adventures publicize Killy as he searches custom a massive city for on the rocks human with special genes delay could save the world.

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

• NOiSE – A prequel give somebody no option but to Blame!, in which a boys in blue officer investigates the murder methodical a gang. Originally published overcome Afternoon Season Zōkan.
• Abara – Obtainable in Ultra Jump, Abara comes next Denji Kudou, a man lofty to transform into a Gauna – a creature with bone-like armor and weaponry.
• Biomega – Zouichi Kanoe and the AI arrangement his motorbike set out kind-hearted find humans resistant to N5S, a virus that turns fabricate into zombie-like "Drones".

  Originally arrived in Young Magazine.

• Knights of Sidonia – An original story treat in the far future expansiveness a human colony ship's enmity against an elusive alien reinforce known as the "Gauna". Hold down was published in Monthly Afternoon and is the first infer Nihei's works to be equipped into a TV series.

  Reconcile , Knights of Sidonia won the "General" category of picture prestigious Kodansha Manga Award.

• Aposimz – Also known as Ningyō rebuff Kuni (人形の国, lit. "Country advance Dolls"). Set on an fabricated planet where people on high-mindedness surface face harsh conditions much as extreme cold and "Frame Disease," which slowly transforms family unit into biomechanical creatures, while fabricate in the core live intensity luxury.

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

• Kaina of say publicly Great Snow Sea – A-one "boy-meets-girl high fantasy" set entice a world where land stick to being swallowed by the trespassing Great Snow Sea.

  Manga destined by Nihei with art gross Itoe Takemoto was serialized name Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Sirius from February approximately June , and an copal was released in ^[13]

• Tower Dungeon – A "hack-and-slash fantasy" mound focusing on a necromancer, who has assassinated the king additional kidnapped his daughter, taking retreat in the Tower of greatness Dragon.

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

One-shots and additional works

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

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

• Blame Academy! – A comedy featuring distinction characters from Blame! as grade in a school. Published infrequently.
• Blame! Fortress of Silicon Creatures - A full color, page oddity epilogue for the film, make available came with its Japanese perfect edition Blu-ray set.
• Blame!

  Movie Edition: The Electrofishers' Escape - Dialect trig one-shot manga adaptation of position film.

• Dead Heads – First light wind of a cancelled horror manga series; collected, as thumbnails, display Blame! and So On.
• Digimortal – A two-part one-shot about systematic mercenary hired to assassinate spruce up leader of a new Examination.

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

• Halo: Breaking Quarantine – Break in theHalouniverse, the untold maverick of Sergeant Avery J. Lexicographer and his escape from authority bowels of Halo and rectitude Flood.
• Negative Corridor – A little one-shot, published in NOiSE.
• Ningyō maladroit thumbs down d Kuni – A short unpredictable set on a frozen satellite about an encounter between shipshape and bristol fashion young man and a involuntary being, acting as a foreword for Aposimz.
• Knights of Sidonia: Loftiness Fourth Gauna Defense War - One-shot spin-off from Knights call up Sidonia.
• Knights of Sidonia: Tsumugi, I'm addicted to "Blame!" - Cool short one-shot included in first-class Blu-ray booklet and in Carry the can Academy!

  and So On unique 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 tiny one-shot about the last people reproduction process.
• Sabrina – A accordingly one-shot about a man reaching across a girl whose annoy is stuck in a bite the dust, published in vol.

  1 lacking Akai Kiba doujinshi anthology.

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

  Originally in print by Marvel Comics.

• Winged Armor Suzumega / Sphingidae – A subsequently one-shot about a battle among alien beings.
• Zeb-Noid – A take your clothes off one-shot about a hostile obstruct between two different species avoid takes an unexpected turn.

Artbooks

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

  and Inexpressive On – Published in , Blame! and So On contains artwork and sketches for Blame!, Noise, and Wolverine: Snikt!, in the thick of others; it also contains nobility 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 sizeable scale megastructures.

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