Takako Shimura Explained

Birth Date:23 October 1973
Birth Place:Kanagawa, Japan
Area:Manga artist
Notable Works:Wandering Son
Sweet Blue Flowers
Manga:Yes

is a Japanese manga artist. She is primarily known for her manga works which feature LGBT (especially lesbian and transgender) topics.

Career

Her best known and selling series are Aoi Hana and Wandering Son. Aoi Hana was adapted as an anime television series broadcast in 2009. Wandering Son has been licensed in English by Fantagraphics Books and an anime adaptation[1] aired in 2011. In 2014, she collaborated with the original character concepts for the anime Aldnoah.Zero. In 2016, she provided the character designs for the anime Battery.

Aside from her publications as a professional manga artist, she is also active in amateur manga. In 2009, she formed a doujinshi circle named "Harapeko Sentai Hashi Ranger" together with fellow manga artists Hisae Iwaoka, Fumiko Tanagawa, Aoki Toshinao and Ishide Den.[2]

Works

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Takako Shimura's Wandering Son Manga Gets Anime . . March 11, 2010 . March 11, 2010.
  2. Web site: 腹ペコ戦隊はしレンジャー . 2023-01-28 . hashiranger.web.fc2.com.
  3. Web site: http://www.ohtabooks.com/sp/shimura-takako-2015/. ja:志村貴子まつり 2015. Takako Shimura festival 2015. Ohta Publishing. Japanese. May 23, 2015.
  4. Web site: Takako Shimura's Aoi Hana Yuri Manga Gets TV Anime. Anime News Network. March 6, 2009. April 17, 2010.
  5. Web site: ja:かわいい悪魔. http://www.ohtabooks.com/publish/2010/09/16170909.html. Ohta Publishing. Japanese. May 23, 2015.
  6. Web site: Aoi Hana/Hourou Musukos Shimura to Launch New Manga. Anime News Network. April 14, 2011. April 14, 2011.
  7. Web site: http://www.poco2.jp/comic/awazima/. ja:淡島百景. Awajima Hyakkei. Ohta Publishing. May 22, 2015. Japanese.
  8. Web site: Wandering Son's Shimura Pens Wagamama Chie-chan Manga. Anime News Network. February 8, 2014. February 8, 2020.