Achievements: In 2003, she won one of the most prestigious awards given to a mangaka (manga artists) in Japan: the Annual Shogakugan Manga Award. | Name: Hiromu Arakawa (real name: Hiromi) Pronunciation: heero-moo arah-kawah Art Movement: Contemporary Art, Animation Born: 1973 in Japan Main Medium: Illustration, Digital Art Artist Quote: "Reading manga gave me hope as a kid and it makes me so happy to think that now I've been able to cheer people up with my own manga." About the Artist: After graduating high school, she took oil painting classes once a month for seven years while working on her family's farm. During this time, she also created dōjinshi (self-published) manga with her friends and drew yonkoma (comics) for a magazine. Arakawa moved to Tokyo in the summer of 1999. She began her career in the manga world as a Square Enix employer and assistant to Hiroyuki Etō. Arakawa's self-portrait is usually a bespectacled cow, as she was born and raised on a dairy farm. [Source] The reason why Arakawa chose a male pen name in her early career is because she intended write shounen genre manga, which are high stake action series that are mainly intended for adolescent boys and she felt she would sell better. [Source] About the Artwork: She is best known for the manga Fullmetal Alchemist, which became a hit in Japan and internationally, and was adapted into two anime television series. Arakawa's simple, dark style and plot choices contrast with the anime's "cartoony," colorful rendering. Arakawa would make many other manga pieces that are mostly within the shounen genre but is now currently writing her series called Silver Spoon, a manga about a young man learning about the intricacies of the agricultural industry. |
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