You Shiina

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You Shiina
椎名優
Notable work
WebsiteYouShiina Works

You Shiina (椎名 優, Shiina Yū) is a Japanese freelance illustrator and manga artist. She has contributed to light novel and children's book covers, illustrations, as well as game package and character design. She did work on the illustrations for the Ascendance of a Bookworm series by Miya Kazuki.

She received the Dengeki Game Illustration Gold Award in 1998, and her cover art for the "Ascendance of a Bookworm" earned the Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!' award in 2018 and 2019.

Biography

In high school, she began submitting work to contests. Shiina found employment at a game company[1] and undertook the character designs for Purikura Daisakusen' in 1996.[2]

She contributed character designs for Tales of Commons (2005), Tales of Wahrheit (2006), and Tales of the World: Material Dungeon (2008) in the

Bandai Namco Games.[1][3] In 2008, Shiina collaborated with fellow artist Haccan on illustrations and package design for The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky from Nihon Falcom.[4]

In 2013, her artwork on the Sagrada Reset light novel series placed ninth in the annual Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! awards from publisher Takarajimasha.[5] Her cover art and illustration work on the Ascendance of a Bookworm light novel series have ranked in the top ten in Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! every year since 2017 and won in 2018 and 2019. She was named the ninth most popular light novel illustrator in both 2021 and 2022.[6][7][8][9][10][11]

Bibliography

Manga

Shiina wrote and illustrated Monochrome Myst, a three-volume manga series published through the Dengeki Comics imprint of Kadokawa Shoten.

  • Volume 1 (July 2011,
    ISBN 9784048707220
    )
  • Volume 2 (January 2013,
    ISBN 9784048913485
    )
  • Volume 3 (March 2014,
    ISBN 9784048663908
    )

They wrote and illustrated a manga based on

The Diary of Anne Frank
:

Art books

Shiina's art has been collected in several volumes:

Cover and interior illustrations

Shiina created the cover and/or interior illustrations for the following works:

Children's books

Shiina illustrated the following children's books:

Reception

Awards and recognition

Shiina has been nominated for and won multiple awards.

Year Organization Award title,
Category 		Work Result Refs
1998 ASCII Media Works Dengeki Game Illustration Award,
Gold Award 		Shizen Chūritsushi (自然調律師) Won [12]
2013 Takarajimasha Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! Sagrada Reset 9 [5]
2017 Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!,
Tankōbon 		Ascendance of a Bookworm cover art 5 [6]
2018 Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!,
Tankōbon 		Ascendance of a Bookworm cover art Won [7]
2019 Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!,
Tankōbon 		Ascendance of a Bookworm cover art Won [8]
Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!,
Top Light Novel of the Decade 		Ascendance of a Bookworm 7 [13]
2020 Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!,
Tankōbon 		Ascendance of a Bookworm cover art 2 [9]
2021 Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!,
Tankōbon 		Ascendance of a Bookworm cover art 2 [14]
Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!,
Top Illustrator 		Ascendance of a Bookworm 9 [10]
2022 Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!,
Tankōbon 		Ascendance of a Bookworm cover art 3
Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!,
Top Illustrator 		Ascendance of a Bookworm 9 [11]

References

  1. ^ a b テイルズ オブ モバイル - キャラクターデザイナー [Tales of Mobile: Character Designer] (in Japanese). Bandai Namco Games. Archived from the original on March 28, 2009. Retrieved October 13, 2022.
  2. ^ もし「ミニセガサターン」が発売したら収録されていて欲しいサターンゲー10選 [The 10 games we want on it if a hypothetical Mini-Saturn goes on sale] (in Japanese). ITmedia - ねとらぼアンサー. August 11, 2017. Archived from the original on June 19, 2022. Retrieved October 13, 2022.
  3. Dengeki Online. January 31, 2008. Archived
    from the original on June 30, 2017. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
  4. Dengeki Online. September 16, 2008. Archived
    from the original on February 5, 2019. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
  5. ^
    ISBN 978-4-8002-0357-1
    .
  6. ^ a b Pineda, Rafael Antonio (November 23, 2016). "Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! 2017's Series Ranking". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on October 15, 2022. Retrieved October 27, 2022.
  7. ^ a b Pineda, Rafael Antonio (November 24, 2017). "Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! Reveals 2018 Series Ranking". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on September 23, 2022. Retrieved October 27, 2022.
  8. ^ a b Pineda, Rafael Antonio (November 23, 2018). "Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! Reveals 2019 Series Ranking". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on October 15, 2022. Retrieved October 27, 2022.
  9. ^ a b Pineda, Rafael Antonio (November 25, 2019). "Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! Reveals 2020 Series Ranking". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on October 21, 2022. Retrieved November 7, 2022.
  10. ^
    ISBN 978-4-299-02264-6
    .
  11. ^ a b Valente, Adriano (December 3, 2021). "'Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!' 2022 Rankings Reveal Most Popular Series, Characters". Game Rant. Archived from the original on October 21, 2022. Retrieved November 7, 2022.
  12. ^ 第１回～20回の電撃大賞歴代受賞者一覧 [List of 1st-20th Dengeki Award Winners]. Kadokawa. Archived from the original on October 13, 2022. Retrieved October 13, 2022.
  13. ^ Morrissy, Kim (November 26, 2019). "Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!: Sword Art Online is the Light Novel of the Decade". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on May 27, 2022. Retrieved October 13, 2022.
  14. ^ 「このライトノベルがすごい！2021」特集 ["Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi!" 2021 report]. Gamers.co.jp (in Japanese). Archived from the original on July 17, 2022. Retrieved November 7, 2022.
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