Daisuke Igarashi

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Daisuke Igarashi
Born (1969-04-02) April 2, 1969 (age 55)
Saitama, Japan
Area(s)Manga artist
Notable works
Witches
Little Forest
Children of the Sea
Saru

Daisuke Igarashi (五十嵐 大介, Igarashi Daisuke, born April 2, 1969) is a Japanese manga artist. Active since the 1990s, he is known for his detailed depictions of nature in combination with spiritual or surreal themes. Manga series like Witches and Children of the Sea have been critically acclaimed and translated into several languages.

Life

Igarashi was born in Saitama in the suburbs of Tokyo. As a child, he would often spend time in a grove of Tsuki-jō [ja] in Saitama, consisting of trees that were several hundreds of years old. He started drawing, because he wanted to depict the beauty of these trees.[1][2] He graduated from Tama Art University,[3] where he studied oil painting from 1989 on. He was classmates with fellow manga artist Hiroaki Samura, but the two of them only properly met later while working for the same manga magazine.[4] After graduating, he travelled through Japan and sketched landscapes that he saw.[2]

In 1993, Igarashi won the newcomer award Afternoon Shiki Shō [ja] ("Afternoon Seasons Prize") of the manga magazine Afternoon with the short story "Ohayashi ga kikoeru hi" ("A Day Festival Music Is Heard") and its publication in the February 1994 issue of Afternoon was his debut as a professional manga artist.[5][3] The short story is set in Tsuki-jō shrine.[2] He had previously submitted the manga to the shōjo manga magazine LaLa, but the magazine's editors rejected it due to its lack of romance in the story and advised Igarashi to submit it to a seinen manga magazine.[4] "Ohayashi ga kikoeru hi" became the first chapter of the series Hanashippanashi, consisting of different short stories. He focused on a series consisting of short stories in order to still experiment with styles and themes in the beginning of his career.[1] Hanashippanashi was serialized in Afternoon until 1996. In the following six years he only published some short stories, which were collected in the book Sora Tobi Tamashii in 2002.

His career took off in 2002. He made a name for himself with the series

rice fields, and his editors approached him about making a manga series about his life.[1] The series was adapted into two live-action films in Japan 2014 and 2015 and into another live-action film in South Korea in 2018.[6]

In 2003 he started working for other publishers than Kodansha. In Shogakukan's then new manga magazine Ikki, he published the series Witches until 2004. From 2006 until 2011 he drew Children of the Sea for the same magazine. Both works received awards and Children of the Sea was adapted into an anime film in 2019 by Studio 4°C. Under Shogakukan's Ikki Comics imprint, he published the two-volume series Saru in 2010 as a collaboration with novelist Kōtarō Isaka, who published the novel SOS no Saru at the same time, with the novel and the manga referencing each other.[7]

He also drew smaller work for publishers other than Kodansha and Shogakukan. In 2005, French comic artist Frédéric Boilet invited him to create a short story about Iwate Prefecture and the cover illustration for the French-Japanese anthology Japan: As Viewed by 17 Creators.[1] Igarashi has also published short stories in the alternative manga magazine Manga Erotics F, the lifestyle magazine Brutus and Shueisha's manga magazine Jump X.

He returned to working for Kodansha in 2015, publishing the series Designs in Afternoon until 2019. Since 2022, he works on Kamakura Bake Neko Club, which is his first work serialized in a female-oriented manga magazine, the josei manga magazine Be Love.

Style and influences

Themes

Igarashi aims to show the beauty of different aspects of nature in his work.

maximalist" spreads showing panoramic landscape views.[9][10][2][11]

Many of his works deal with spiritual themes and folklore.

mythology that has similarities all across the world. He states: "Maybe that, a long time ago, there was a sort of community that used to share a similar way of thinking, across the world."[1] Saru is loosely adapted from the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West.[7]

Most of Igarashi's human characters are often drawn in a simple and sketched way in order to differentiate them from detailed backgrounds and accounts of nature. He has claimed that he is much less interested in depicting humans than nature.[4] Most of his human protagonists are girls or women. He reasons that femininity is connected with nature and that drawing cute female characters gives his work a bigger mass appeal.[2] In Witches, he draws on mythology and fairy tales around femininity to show different women being ostracized or excluded from society by patriarchy.[11]

Drawing process

Unusually for the manga industry, he draws without assistants. After creating a pencil sketch, he starts his inking process with a maru pen and fills in details with a

sound words with a brush pen. At the end, he attaches screentone and scratches light effects into the screentone or uses it to make the focal point of a drawing stand out.[2]

Influences

He names

shojo manga like Taku Tsumugi, Megumi Wakatsuki [ja], Minako Narita [ja] and Izumi Kawahara [ja].[2] Fumiko Takano and Miyazaki's manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind have been praised by him in interviews.[10][2] His style has earned comparisons to the films of Hayao Miyazaki.[1]

Reception

His work has received praise from other manga artists like Taiyō Matsumoto,[10] Hiroaki Samura[4] and Naoki Urasawa.[2] The manga artist Yuki Urushibara cites him as an inspiration.[13]

Several of his manga have been translated into other languages, among them English,[14] Korean,[15] French,[16] Italian,[17] Spanish,[18] Czech[19] and Polish.[20]

For his work, Igarashi has received the following awards and nominations:

Award Year Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Afternoon Shiki Shō [ja] 1993 Winter Award "Ohayashi ga kikoeru hi" Won [3][4]
American Library Association 2010 Great Graphic Novels for Teens Children of the Sea Won [21]
Angoulême International Comics Festival 2007 Prize for Best Album Witches Nominated [22]
Japan Cartoonists Association Award 2009 Excellence Award Children of the Sea Won [23]
Japan Media Arts Festival 2004 Excellence Award Witches Won [5]
2009 Children of the Sea Won [5]
Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2017 Men's Manga Designs 18th Place [24]
Manga Taishō 2011 — Saru 13th Place [25]
Seiun Award 2011 Best Comic Saru Nominated [26]
Sugoi Japan Award 2017 Manga Award Designs Nominated [27]
Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize 2005 Grand Prize Little Forest Nominated [28]
2008 Children of the Sea Nominated [29]
2009 Children of the Sea Nominated [30]

Works

Title Year Notes Refs
Hanashippanashi (はなしっぱなし) 1994–1996 Serialized in
Afternoon
Published by Kodansha
in 3 vol. 		[31][32]
Little Forest (リトル・フォレスト) 2002–2005 Serialized in Afternoon
Published by Kodansha in 2 vol. 		[33]
Sora Tobi Tamashii (そらトびタマシイ, "Spirit in the Sky") 2002 Short story collection published by Kodansha in 1 vol. [34]
Witches (魔女, Majo) 2003–2004 Serialized in Ikki
Published by Shogakukan in 2 vol.
Published in English by Seven Seas Entertainment 		[35]
Kabocha no Bōken (カボチャの冒険, "The Adventures of Kabocha") 2003–2007 Serialized in Animal Paradise
Published by Takeshobo in 1 vol. 		[36]
Children of the Sea (海獣の子供, Kaijū no Kodomo) 2006–2011 Serialized in Ikki
Published by Shogakukan in 5 vol.
Published in English by Viz Media 		[14]
Saru 2010 Collaboration with Kōtarō Isaka
Published by Shogakukan in 2 vol. 		[37]
Designs (ディザインズ) 2015–2019 Serialized in Afternoon
Published by Kodansha in 5 vol. 		[6]
Kyō no Ani Imōto (きょうのあにいもうと) 2015–2017 Serialized in Hibana [38]
Umwelt (ウムヴェルト) 2017 Collection of short stories published 2004–2014
Published by Kodansha in 1 vol. 		[39]
Kamakura Bake Neko Club (かまくらBAKE猫倶楽部) 2022–present Serialized in Be Love [40]

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