Tatsuya Endo

Tatsuya Endo
Endo's Twitter profile picture
Born	July 23, 1980 Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Education	Ibaraki Kenritsu Koga Daisan High School
Occupation	Manga artist
Years active	2007–present

Tatsuya Endo (Japanese: 遠藤 達哉, Hepburn: Endō Tatsuya, born July 23, 1980) is a Japanese manga artist. Endo created TISTA and Gekka Bijin. His current work is SPYxFAMILY, which is published in Jump+ and boasted over ten million physical & digital copies in circulation within its first seven volumes.^[1] His work is published in various Jump magazines.

Early life[]

Ever since childhood, Endo aspired to become a manga artist. His family consisted of one parent and a brother. His favorite actors and actresses are Bruce Lee, Hiroshi Abe, Meg Ryan and Audrey Tautou. His favourite manga artists are Akira Toriyama, Hiroyuki Nishimori, and Minetarō Mochizuki. His hobbies include skiing, basketball, and racket-based ball games.^[2]

Career[]

Endo worked as an assistant for the manga series' Blue Exorcist and Fire Punch.^[3] He was mentored by manga artists Yasuhiro Kanō^[4] and Yoshiyuki Nishi.^[5] Like many manga artists, Endo began his career creating one-shots. Some of these one off stories would have influences towards his later manga. After finishing TISTA and Gekka Bijin for Jump Square and finishing three one-shots with editor Shihei Lin, who Endo had known and worked with for more than 10 years,^[3] the two began to plan for a series that would feature in Shōnen Jump+. This manga would combine what Lin thought were the strengths of Endo's previous works; Rengoku no Ashe, Ishi ni Usubeni, Tetsu ni Hoshi and ISpy, creating SPYxFAMILY.^[3] Lin claimed that the reception for SPYxFAMILY from their editorial department was so good that its serialization was "practically decided" before an official meeting for it took place.^[3] SPYxFAMILY would go on to become part of the top ten most popular manga on their website as of 2019.

Awards[]

• Spy x Family
  • 2019: 1st in the web manga category of the Next Manga Awards.^[6]
  • 2020: Winner of 4th TSUTAYA's Comic Awards^[7]

Style[]

At the beginning of his career, Endo published mature stories. This is especially true for his early titles TISTA and Rengoku no Ashe, which are about a serial killer and witch hunting respectively. After working on so much manga with dark tones, his editor, Shihei Lin, encouraged Endo to come up with a more "bright and cheerful manga".^[3] The one-shot, ISpy, could be seen as a transition piece between Endo's dark and bright narratives, as it incorporates the mature themes of his early work while still being a "cheerful title" like Lin had suggested. His work in SPYxFAMILY is the first that completely deviates into what is more considered a cheerful manga^{[citation needed]}.

His editor claims that Endo likes to think through every detail of a plot.^[3] When proposed with an idea about his story, Endo will quickly point out any contradictions.^[3] This along with his need to create deep and well thought-out characters has pushed him into telling stories that show a positive or negative shift in the psychological state of his characters. Endo always seeks to improve the quality of his work, so he reads lots of manga, novels, and books.^[3]

Works[]

Manga[]

As illustrator[]

References[]

External links[]

• Tatsuya Endo at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Tatsuya Endo at Twitter (in Japanese)