Fusako Kuramochi Explained
is a Japanese Japanese: shōjo|nocat=y manga artist. While still in high school, she made her professional debut with Japanese: Megane-chan no Hitorigoto, published in the Autumn 1972 issue of Bessatsu Margaret. She won the magazine's gold medal for amateur manga artists. Afterwards, Kuramochi studied Japanese painting at Musashino Art University, but left before graduation to pursue her career full-time.[1]
Her manga Tennen Kokekkō received the 1996 Kodansha Manga Award for Japanese: shōjo manga,[2] and was adapted as a live-action movie in 2007. Her series A-Girl was adapted as an anime OVA in 1993. Her manga Hana ni Somu won the Grand Prize category of the 21st Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2017.[3]
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Notes and References
- Book: Profile and Interview with Fusako Kuramochi . International Perspectives on Shojo and Shojo Manga: The Influence of Girl Culture . 2015 . https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315749976/chapters/10.4324/9781315749976-30 . . 10.4324/9781315749976 . 9781315749976 . 16 June 2020. Toku . Masami .
- Web site: Hahn . Joel . Kodansha Manga Award . Comic Book Awards Almanac . 21 August 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070816031310/http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/kodansha.shtml . 16 August 2007 . dead.
- Web site: Pineda . Rafael Antonio . Hana ni Somu Manga Wins 21st Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize's Top Award . . 16 May 2017 . 24 April 2017.