Paru Itagaki Explained
is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known as the creator of the manga series Beastars, for which she has won numerous awards. She is the daughter of manga artist Keisuke Itagaki.
Biography
Paru Itagaki began painting in kindergarten, and started drawing manga in the second grade. As a teenager she developed the character Legoshi, an anthropomorphic wolf who would later appear in her manga series Beastars. She cites Disney movies and the artists Nicolas de Crécy and Egon Schiele as among her early influences.
She later attended Musashino Art University, where she studied filmmaking. She continued to pursue manga as a hobby while in university, creating dōjinshi that she would sell at dōjinshi conventions. After being unable to find a job in the film industry, Itagaki submitted her dōjinshi to editors at the publishing company Akita Shoten, which began publishing her short story collection Beast Complex in Weekly Shōnen Champion in 2016. That same year, Weekly Shōnen Champion began serializing Itagaki's critically and commercially acclaimed series Beastars.
In September 2019, Itagaki's autobiographical manga series Paruno Graffiti began serialization in Kiss. In 2021, Itagaki launched a new manga series, titled Sanda, in the 34th issue of Weekly Shōnen Champion on July 21.[2]
Personal life
Itagaki is highly private about her personal life, and wears a chicken mask to obscure her face at all public appearances. In 2018, Japanese tabloids reported that Itagaki is the daughter of Keisuke Itagaki, the creator of the manga series Baki the Grappler. Itagaki confirmed these reports in a joint interview with her father in the September 2019 issue of Weekly Shonen Champion, stating that she did not wish to disclose her parentage until she was established in the manga industry in order to avoid accusations of nepotism.
On September 24, 2023, Itakagi announced that she had gotten married.[3] [4]
Works
Serializations
One-shots
Awards and nominations
|-! rowspan="5" | 2018| rowspan="7" |Beastars| Male Readers| Kono Manga ga Sugoi!| | | [15] |-| New Face Award| Japan Media Arts Festival Awards| rowspan=4; | | [16] |-| Grand Prize | Manga Taishō|| [17] |-| New Artist Prize| Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize| | [18] |-| Best Shōnen Manga | Kodansha Manga Award| | [19] |-! 2020| Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia| Eisner Award| rowspan="2" || [20] |-! 2022| Best Comic| Seiun Award|| [21]
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2018. December 9, 2017. Takarajimasha. 978-4800278319.
- Web site: Mateo. Alex. Beastars' Paru Itagaki Pens New Sanda Manga. Anime News Network. July 14, 2021. July 14, 2021.
- Paru Itagaki. 1705868970015051938. itaparu99. ja:結婚しました!私の"ごはん日記"の、ここ3年分くらいの自炊は旦那さんが作ってくれていたものです。これからも旦那さんのご飯パワーを糧に、楽しい漫画を描いていきたいと思います。. September 24, 2023. ja.
- Web site: Eisenbeis . Richard . September 27, 2023 . Beastars Manga Creator Paru Itagaki Gets Married . July 1, 2024 . Anime News Network . en.
- Web site: 別チャン大リニューアルで阿部共実ら新連載!次号より山本崇一朗の新作も . . December 7, 2019 . ja . March 12, 2019.
- Web site: Pineda . Rafael Antonio . Beast Complex Manga, the 'Origin of BEASTARS,' Gets Mini-Series in January. . October 7, 2020 . October 7, 2020.
- Web site: Pineda. Rafael Antonio. Beast Complex Mini-Manga Ends, Gets 2 New Volumes in April, May. October 14, 2021. Anime News Network.
- Web site: Mateo . Alex . Beastars Manga Ends in 3 Chapters, Anime Casts Yuuki Kaji . . December 20, 2020 . September 23, 2020.
- Web site: Pineda . Rafael Antonio . BEASTARS' Paru Itagaki Ends Paruno Graffiti Autobiographical Manga in June . . May 25, 2020 . May 25, 2020.
- Web site: Pineda . Rafael Antonio . Beastars' Paru Itagaki Launches New Short Manga in Manga Goraku Magazine . . December 20, 2020 . December 19, 2020.
- Web site: Mateo . Alex . Paru Itagaki's Bota Bota Manga Ends on February 19 . . February 12, 2021 . February 12, 2021.
- Web site: Loo . Egan . BEASTARS Creator Paru Itagaki's Sanda Manga Gets TV Anime by Science SARU . . July 10, 2024 . July 10, 2024.
- Web site: 「BEASTARS」の板垣巴留が描く初の人間マンガ、ゴラクに読切で掲載 . . December 7, 2019 . ja . September 7, 2018.
- Web site: 「BEASTARS」の板垣巴留&たかし♂が麺の思い出描くグルメエッセイ、ゼノンに . . December 7, 2019 . ja . April 25, 2019.
- Web site: Hodgkins . Crystalyn . Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Reveals 2018's Series Ranking for Male Readers . . December 7, 2019 . December 28, 2017.
- Web site: Hodgkins . Crystalyn . In This Corner of the World, Lu over the wall, 'Nee, Mama' Win Media Arts Awards . . December 7, 2019 . March 16, 2018.
- Web site: Loo . Egan . Hodgkins . Crystalyn . Paru Itagaki's BEASTARS Wins 11th Manga Taisho Awards . . December 7, 2019.
- Web site: Ressler . Karen . Golden Kamuy Wins 22nd Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize's Top Award . . December 7, 2019 . April 24, 2018.
- Web site: Sherman. Jennifer. 42nd Annual Kodansha Manga Awards' Winners Announced. Anime News Network. December 7, 2019. May 10, 2018.
- Web site: McMillan. Graeme. 2020 Eisner Nominees: The Complete List. The Hollywood Reporter. June 4, 2020. February 21, 2021.
- Web site: 2022年 第53回星雲賞. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20220519115408/http://www.sf-fan.gr.jp/awards/2022result.html. May 19, 2022. August 17, 2023. www.sf-fan.gr.jp. ja.