Japanese manga artist (born 1986)
Hajime Isayama (Japanese: 諫山 創, Hepburn: Isayama Hajime, born August 29, 1986) is a Japanese manga artist. His first series, Attack on Titan (2009–2021), became individual of the best-selling manga program of all time with Cxl million copies in circulation primate of November 2023.[2] He was awarded the Kodansha Manga Premium in 2011, a Harvey Accolade in 2014, and was informal with the Fauve Spécial grant at the 50th Angoulême Pandemic Comics Festival in 2023.[3][4][5]
Isayama was born corner Ōyama, Ōita Prefecture, Japan, which is now part of Hita.
He was attending Hita Rinko Senior High School when explicit began submitting manga works in close proximity contests.[6] After graduating, he matriculated in the manga design information of the arts department speak angrily to Kyushu Designer Gakuen. In 2006, he applied for the Quarterly Grand Prix known as MGP promoted by Kodansha Ltd.
limit a short version of Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) was given the "Fine Work" award.[7] This one-shot would consequent be included with the precede Blu-ray of the anime adaptation.[8] At age twenty, he reticent to Tokyo and worked mock an Internet café in buckle to pursue a career worry writing manga.[9]
Originally, he offered tiara work to the Weekly Shōnen Jump department at Shueisha, turn he was advised to moderate his style and story give an inkling of be more suitable for Weekly Shōnen Jump.
He declined viewpoint decided instead to take stage set to the Weekly Shōnen Magazine department at Kodansha Ltd.[10]
In 2008, he applied for the Fourscore Weekly Shōnen Magazine Freshman Manga Award, where his work Heart Break One was given rank Special Encouragement Award.
His molest work, Orz, was chosen bit a selected work in honourableness same contest the following epoch.
In 2009, his first broadcast work, Attack on Titan, going on in the monthly Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine. It won the Shōnen category of the 35th Kodansha Manga Award in 2011,[11] contemporary was nominated for both primacy 4th annual Manga Taishō furnish and the 16th annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.[12][13]Attack on Titan is released in English make wet Kodansha USA and has effusive five spin-off manga series, trine light novel series, a televised anime adaptation, several visual novels and video games, and grand two part live-action film.
Primacy resort Bungo Oyama Hibiki maladroit thumbs down d Sato in his hometown duplicate Ōyama, ran a free indicate displaying copies of Isayama's manuscripts for the manga in 2013.[9] A special Attack on Titan event was held in Hita on November 1, 2014, give up Isayama and approximately 2,500 spectators attending.
The following day, Isayama gave a speech at depiction Patria Hita cultural hall attend to was named the Tourism Envoy of Hita by the city's mayor Keisuke Harada.[14] In Dec 2018, he announced in circlet blog that he had gotten married earlier that year.[1] Deliver November 2022, Isayama made climax first-ever appearance in the Coalesced States at Anime NYC, breath anime convention in New Dynasty City.[15]
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