Kiyohiko Azuma

Kiyohiko Azuma
あずまきよひこ
Area(s) Manga artist
Pseudonym(s) Jōji Jonokuchi (序ノ口譲二)
Notable works
 Azumanga Daioh, Yotsuba&!

Kiyohiko Azuma (あずまきよひこ Azuma Kiyohiko, born May 27, 1968 in Takasago, Hyōgo Prefecture) is a Japanese manga artist. From 1999 to 2002, he released the four-panel manga series Azumanga Daioh, about a group of high school girls, which was adapted into an anime series. In 2003, he started a slice-of-life manga series Yotsuba&!, about the adventures of a six-year-old girl; it is serialized in the monthly magazine Dengeki Daioh. Prior to these series, he worked on a hentai manga called Inma no Ranbu under the pseudonym Jōji Jonokuchi (序ノ口譲二).[1]

Works

Title Year Notes Refs[2]
Inma no Ranbu 1997 As Jōji Jonokuchi [1][3]
Wallaby (ja:わらびー Warabi) 1998–2000 Serialized in Game-jin
ja:Try! Try! Try! 1998 one-shot for Yotsuba&! and related webcomics [4]
Azumanga Daioh 1999–2002 Serialized in Dengeki Daioh
Published by MediaWorks in 4 volumes
Magical Play 2001–02 Character designs for ONA series. Published by Dengeki Comics
Yotsuba&! 2003–present Serialized in Dengeki Daioh
Published by ASCII Media Works in 12 volumes

References

  1. 1 2 "○ず○んがとは違うのだよ！あ○まん○とは！序ノ口譲二入荷しました！" [It's not *zu*nga! Not A*man**! We received some Joji Jonokuchi.]. Mandarake (in Japanese). Retrieved 2008-01-31.
  2. ↑ "著者：あずまきよひこ" [Author: Kiyohiko Azuma]. Media Arts Database (in Japanese). Japan: Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
  3. ↑ http://king-zairak.deviantart.com/journal/So-I-stumbled-upon-Inma-No-Ranbu-234658482
  4. ↑ Chad Clayton (6 June 2005). "Yotsuba&! vol. 1". Anime Jump!. Archived from the original on 10 May 2006. Retrieved 8 August 2007.

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