Hitoshi Iwaaki

Hitoshi Iwaaki (Japanese: 岩明 均, Hepburn: Iwaaki Hitoshi, born July 28, 1960) is a Japanese manga artist, whose works include the science-fiction/horror series Parasyte. The Mixx editions of Parasyte romanize his name as "Hitosi Iwaaki", while the Del Rey Manga editions use "Hitoshi Iwaaki".

Awards[]

In 1993, he received the Kodansha Manga Award for Parasyte.^[1] In 2010 Historie took the grand prize in the manga division of the 2010 Japan Media Arts Festival.^[2] He was the winner for the 2012 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Grand Prize for Historie.^[3]

Works[]

• Fuuko no Iru Mise (4 volumes, Morning 1986-1988)
• Hone no Oto (1 volume, short stories, Morning 1990, large format edition, 2003)
• Parasyte (10 volumes, Afternoon 1990-1995, Perfect Edition: 8 volumes, 2003) First published in English by Mixx (Tokyopop), republished in English by Del Rey Manga
• Tanabata no Kuni ("The Country of Tanabata") (4 volumes, Big Comic Spirits, Perfect Edition: 2 volumes, 2003)
• Yuki no Touge, Tsurugi no Mai (2001)
• Heureka, (2002, Young Animal Arashi)
• Historie, (2003-ongoing, 11 volumes as of July 2019, Afternoon)
• Reiri (2015-ongoing, Bessatsu Shonen Champion)^[4]

Iwaaki also contributed a story to Neo Devilman.

References[]

External links[]

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