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Yuki Kodama
Japanese manga artist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yuki Kodama (Japanese: 小玉 ユキ, Hepburn: Kodama Yuki) is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known as the creator of the manga series Kids on the Slope, for which she won a Shogakukan Manga Award in 2011.
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Kodama was born on September 26 in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.[1] She made her debut as a manga artist in 2000, with her series Zakuro (柘榴) published in Cutie Comic, a manga magazine published by Takarajimasha.[2] Kodama would go on to publish several short-form works in Cutie Comic and Vanilla, a manga magazine published by Kodansha, in the early- to mid-2000s.[3]
Kodama is best known for her manga series Kids on the Slope, which was serialized in the manga magazine Monthly Flowers from 2007 to 2012.[4] The series, which Kodama based on her own experience growing up in Sasebo, was the top-ranked manga for women in the 2009 edition of Takarajimasha's annual Kono Manga ga Sugoi! rankings[5] and won the 57th Shogakukan Manga Award in 2012 for general manga.[6] In 2012, Kids on the Slope was adapted into a television anime series by director Shinichirō Watanabe.[4]
Following Kids on the Slope, Kodama's wrote the manga series Tsukikage Baby, a drama focused on events in a traditional Japanese town from the perspectives of several different families. The series, which was published from 2013 to 2017 in Monthly Flowers;[7][8] was one of the top ranked manga for women in the 2014 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! rankings.[9] Her next series Chiisako no Niwa, also published in Monthly Flowers, ran from 2017 to 2018,[10][11] and placed eighth in the 2019 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! rankings.[12] Her most recent work, Ao no Hana, Utsuwa no Mori, has been published in Monthly Flowers since 2018.[13]
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Works
Ongoing series
- Hagoromo Mishin (published in Monthly Flowers, 2007)[14]
- Kids on the Slope (published in Monthly Flowers, 2007 – 2012)[4]
- Tsukikage Baby (published in Monthly Flowers, 2013 – 2017)[7][8]
- Chiisako no Niwa (published in Monthly Flowers, 2017 – 2018)[10][11]
- Ao no Hana, Utsuwa no Mori (published in Monthly Flowers, 2018 – 2022)[13]
- Wolf's Daughter: A Werewolf's Tale (published in Monthly Flowers, 2022 – present)
One-Shots
- Zakuro (published in Cutie Comic, 2000)[2]
- Hōsekibako no Ningyo (published in Yawaraka Spirits, 2013)[15]
- Underground (published in Zōkan Flowers, 2014)[16]
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