Chikako Urano Explained

Chikako Urano (Japanese: 浦野千賀子, born 20 December 1946)^[1] is a Japanese mangaka.

Life

Urano was born in Osaka. As a teenager, she started publishing comics in the Kashi-hon market. In 1966, she published her first short story "Shibō zero no hi" in a commercial manga magazine, Bessatsu Margaret. She continued working for this magazine and its sister magazine Margaret. She became famous with sports manga. In the latter, she published her most successful series Attack No. 1 from 1968 until 1970. This volleyball manga was also adapted into an anime TV series and contributed, together with the series Sign ha V by Akira Mochizuki, to a hype around women's volleyball in Japan at the time.^{[2] [3]}

Her manga Kyōfu no Yodogō (1970) was inspired by the Yodogō Hijacking Incident that same year.

Her husband was the manga artist Yuu Koto and her brother-in-law the manga artist Kei Sadayasu.^[4]

Works

• Attack No. 1 (アタックNo.1 1968–1970)
• Yuujou no Kaiten Receive (友情の回転レシーブ, 1968)
• Kyōfu no Yodogō (1970)
• Doctor Junko (ドクタージュン子, 1974–1976)
• Shin Attack No. 1 (新アタックNo.1, 1976–1977)

Notes and References

1. Web site: 浦野 千賀子（漫画家） . 2021-01-17 . Mangapedia . ja.
2. Web site: 押山美知子. 浦野千賀子「アタックNo.1」にみる身体表象―スポーツと女性身体の関係性. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20220108192931/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/71796214.pdf . 2022-01-08 . 2021-01-17.
3. Kálovics . Dalma . The missing link of shōjo manga history: the changes in 60s shōjo manga as seen through the magazine Shūkan Margaret . Journal of Kyoto Seika University . 44 . 10, 12.
4. Web site: Inc. VOYAGE MARKETING. さだやす 圭（漫画家）. 2021-01-17. マンガペディア. ja.