Tsuyoshi Nakaima Explained

Name Nonen:なかいま 強
Nonus:ja
Birth Date:13 April 1960
Birth Place:USCAR
Area:Manga artist
Notable Works:Wataru Ga Pyun!
Ucchare Goshogawara
The Golden Rough
Awards:43rd Shōnen Shogakukan Manga Award (1989)
Manga:Yes

is a Japanese manga artist who is the author and artist of sports manga. He is best known for the Sumo series Ucchare Goshogawara, for which he received the 1989 Shogakukan Manga Award in shōnen category.[1] and which got an OVA adaptation in 1991. Between 1999 and 2011, his golf manga The Golden Rough (Ougon no Rough ~Sōta no Stance~) was released in 33 tankōbon volumes.

Nakaima was an avid baseball player throughout high school and college but had to quit after shoulder injury. He became an assistant to Akio Chiba before creating manga on his own. Nakaima is from Okinawa and it has been noted how some of his character use Okinawan Japanese.[2]

Selected works

References

  1. Web site: http://comics.shogakukan.co.jp/mangasho/rist.html . ja:小学館漫画賞: 歴代受賞者 . Shogakukan . Japanese . 2008-06-16 . 2005-04-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20050424231028/http://comics.shogakukan.co.jp/mangasho/rist.html . dead .
  2. Book: Noguchi. Mary Goebel. Fotos. Sandra. Studies in Japanese bilingualism. limited. 2001. Multilingual Matters Ltd. Clevedon [u.a.]. 9781853594892. 93. illustrated.