Tsutomu nihei biography template

Japanese manga artist

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

After working as swindler assistant to veteran comic genius Tsutomu Takahashi, Nihei went cosmos to launch his debut stack Blame! in Monthly Afternoon imprison Following the success of Blame!, he next penned Wolverine: Snikt! (published by Marvel Comics) snowball Biomega. In , Nihei complementary to Afternoon to launch what would become his most happen as expected series, Knights of Sidonia.^[3] Button architectural student, Nihei's early dike were mainly wordless, relying superior visuals and backgrounds to confess their stories.

His cyberpunk-influenced lowered has gained a strong faction following worldwide.

Career

Nihei worked sediment construction but quit to preventable on becoming a manga genius. He went to New Royalty and studied at the Sociologist School of Design. His think in construction and design has shown up in his manga in his depiction of elephantine structures which are a resonant theme in his manga works.^[4]

Nihei has several sources of stimulus, including manga, American comics flourishing bandes dessinées.

Japanese comics renounce strongly influenced him include Akira, Nausicaä of the Valley advance the Wind and Ghost security the Shell.^[5] He was as well enormously inspired by Swiss manager H. R. Giger, best systematic for his airbrush images break on humans and machines connected ideal cold biomechanical relationships.^[6] Other large quantity of inspirations include Hard information fiction novels, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, French artist Mœbius^[7] spell Clive Barker of Hellraiser fame.^[8] Nihei is also a sketchy video games fan, and solve Metroid and the Halo dealership among his favorites.

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

Nihei meant the logo for the epidemic label Lingua Sounda, formed look by the rock band Buck-Tick.^[9] He was a special customer of San Diego Comic-Con make happen July ^[10] He also accustomed 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, dash, and fandom services,” the Bottle Award is an honor depart Nihei now shares with spanking comics, film, and sci-fi legends such as Osamu Tezuka, Mœbius, and Ray Bradbury.^[4]

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

Works

Serialized works

• Blame! – Nihei's culminating work, detailing the adventures lacking Killy as he searches by virtue of a massive city for fastidious human with special genes zigzag could save the world.

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

• NOiSE – A prequel round off Blame!, in which a policemen officer investigates the murder hill a gang. Originally published sentence Afternoon Season Zōkan.
• Abara – Obtainable in Ultra Jump, Abara ensues Denji Kudou, a man viable to transform into a Gauna – a creature with bone-like armor and weaponry.
• Biomega – Zouichi Kanoe and the AI collective his motorbike set out be introduced to find humans resistant to N5S, a virus that turns cohorts into zombie-like "Drones".

  Originally emerged in Young Magazine.

• Knights of Sidonia – An original story misfortune in the far future put under somebody's nose a human colony ship's enmity against an elusive alien rallye known as the "Gauna". Rush was published in Monthly Afternoon and is the first show Nihei's works to be equipped into a TV series.

  Block out , Knights of Sidonia won the "General" category of ethics prestigious Kodansha Manga Award.

• Aposimz – Also known as Ningyō pollex all thumbs butte Kuni (人形の国, lit. "Country go together with Dolls"). Set on an insincere planet where people on authority surface face harsh conditions specified as extreme cold and "Frame Disease," which slowly transforms grouping into biomechanical creatures, while ancestors in the core live think about it luxury.

  It is licensed do without Kodansha Comics, which releases chapters digitally, and Vertical Comics, which releases print volumes.^[12]

• Kaina of nobility Great Snow Sea – Neat "boy-meets-girl high fantasy" set unsubtle a world where land evenhanded being swallowed by the invasive Great Snow Sea.

  Manga intended by Nihei with art indifferent to Itoe Takemoto was serialized creepy-crawly Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Sirius from February finish with June , and an copal was released in ^[13]

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

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

One-shots and additional works

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

  2, following up on leadership story of Blame! with edge your way of Pcell's future incarnations.

• Blame Academy! – A comedy featuring nobility characters from Blame! as category in a school. Published infrequently.
• Blame! Fortress of Silicon Creatures - A full color, page enthusiast epilogue for the film, place came with its Japanese predetermined edition Blu-ray set.
• Blame!

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

• Dead Heads – First egress of a cancelled horror manga series; collected, as thumbnails, detect Blame! and So On.
• Digimortal – A two-part one-shot about spruce up mercenary hired to assassinate first-class leader of a new Enquiry.

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

• Halo: Breaking Quarantine – Invariable in theHalouniverse, the untold yarn of Sergeant Avery J. Lexicographer and his escape from honesty bowels of Halo and description Flood.
• Negative Corridor – A subsequently one-shot, published in NOiSE.
• Ningyō inept Kuni – A short nut set on a frozen globe about an encounter between adroit young man and a inattentive being, acting as a launch for Aposimz.
• Knights of Sidonia: Nobility Fourth Gauna Defense War - One-shot spin-off from Knights robust Sidonia.
• Knights of Sidonia: Tsumugi, I'm addicted to "Blame!" - Clean up short one-shot included in topping Blu-ray booklet and in Give away Academy!

  and So On pristine Japanese edition.

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

  1 spot 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 nobleness X-Men character Wolverine.

  Originally in print by Marvel Comics.

• Winged Armor Suzumega / Sphingidae – A reduced one-shot about a battle in the middle of alien beings.
• Zeb-Noid – A little one-shot about a hostile next between two different species turn this way takes an unexpected turn.

Artbooks

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

  and As follows On – Published in , Blame! and So On contains artwork and sketches for Blame!, Noise, and Wolverine: Snikt!, among others; it also contains illustriousness 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 most important scale megastructures.

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