Mari Yamazaki

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Mari Yamazaki
ヤマザキ マリ
Born (1967-04-20) April 20, 1967 (age 57)
Manga artist
Notable works
Thermae Romae

Mari Yamazaki (ヤマザキ マリ, Yamazaki Mari, born 20 April 1967) is a Japanese

First, she went to Italy to study art when she was 17. She was planning to study in UK, but a ceramics artist called Marco Tasco (マルコ爺さん) convinced her and her family to go to Italy instead. She attend the National Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, where she studied art history and oil painting.

As soon as her son, Derusu was born in Italy, she decided to become a single mother and returned to Sapporo, Japan with her son where her mother lived. That's about when she started Manga seriously in order to support herself and her son. She debuted as a manga artist in 1997. She couldn’t make a living just from manga at her earlier career, and so taught Italian at a university, worked on TV as a reporter specializing in hot spring resorts. It eventually inspires her later big hit, "Thermae Romae."

She was awarded the 3rd Manga Taishō[2] and the Short Story Award in the 2010 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prizes.[3] An anime adaptation of the manga has been produced and aired[4] and a live-action film adaptation was released in April 2012, with its sequel, Thermae Romae II, in April 2014.

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Honours


References

  1. ^ "Chicago College to Host Thermae Romae's Mari Yamazaki". Anime News Network. 2 June 2011. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
  2. ^ "Mari Yamazaki's Thermae Romae Wins Manga Taisho Award". Anime News Network. 14 March 2010. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
  3. ^ "14th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Winners Announced". Anime News Network. 14 March 2010. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
  4. ^ "Thermae Romae Bath Manga Gets TV Anime". Anime News Network. 9 December 2011. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
  5. ^ "『プリニウス』第7巻の書影アップ!". shinchosha. 25 June 2018. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
  6. ^ "Thermae Romae's Mari Yamazaki Launches Manga About Olympics Next Spring". 21 December 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  7. ^ "Mari Yamazaki Draws Thermae Romae Sequel Manga". Anime News Network. 24 February 2024. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
  8. ^ Mari Yamazaki (Thermae Romae) recibe una condecoración del gobierno italiano - website Your Look for Less!

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