Yoshitoshi ABe

Yoshitoshi ABe

Yoshitoshi ABe in May 2007.
Native name 安倍 吉俊
Born (1971-08-03) August 3, 1971

Yoshitoshi ABe (安倍 吉俊 Abe Yoshitoshi, born August 3, 1971) is a Japanese graphic artist who works predominantly in anime and manga. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. His works have an edgy style due to, among other things, his not using a ruler while drawing as is usual for most anime-style art. He first gained fame in his work on the avant-garde anime Serial Experiments Lain. He is also responsible for the concept and character design for the series NieA under 7. He is the creator of the doujinshi Haibane Renmei, which was then adapted into an anime.

He is a colleague and friend of Chiaki J. Konaka, with whom he collaborated on the series Serial Experiments Lain and Texhnolyze. He usually uses the Romaji form of his name instead of the kanji, with the "B" in "ABe" capitalized, as a reminder of his early works, for which he used the pen name "AB".

Abe Yoshitoshi first began his career as a teen in Tokyo who was first recognized as a graffiti artist, who regularly got into legal problems with his art. His concepts for all his later works are said to be inspired by this time of his life and has projected a dark theme into his anime character designs.

He is known to be a fairly tech-savvy manga artist,[1] drawing a sketch with just his finger and an application on an iPad.[2] He released self-published dōjinshi on digital support bypassing the traditional print publishers with Pochiyama at the Pharmacy in 2008 aimed at iPhone and iPod Touch and I am an Alien, I have a Question in 2010 for Kindle.[1][3]

Personal Life

He married modern artist Sasaki Yukari, his manga assistant since 2010, on November 11, 2011.[4] Their daughter was born on September 21, 2012.[5]

Works

Anime

Music

Video games

Printed works

References

  1. 1 2 Thompson, Jason (May 18, 2010). "Manga 2.0: Yoshitoshi ABe's Digital Dojinshi". Comics Journal. Retrieved June 14, 2010.
  2. ↑ "Lain's Yoshitoshi ABe Demos iPad Finger-Painting App (Updated)". Anime News Network. April 15, 2010. Retrieved June 14, 2010.
  3. ↑ "New Yoshitoshi ABe Manga Now Available on Kindle". Anime News Network. March 11, 2010. Retrieved June 14, 2010.
  4. ↑ ABe, Yoshitoshi. "入籍しました". Ablog (in Japanese). Retrieved 3 August 2016.
  5. ↑ ABe, Yoshitoshi. "赤ちゃんが生まれました". Ablog (in Japanese). Retrieved 3 August 2016.
  6. 1 2 "Lain Men: Yoshitoshi ABe". Anime Jump. Archived from the original on September 26, 2007.
  7. ↑ http://www.nitroplus.co.jp/game/phenomeno/
  8. ↑ "Ame no Furu Basho" 雨の降る場所 [The Place the Rain Falls], Eureka (in Japanese), Seidosha, 42 (12): 157–184, October 2010, ISBN 978-4-7917-0214-5

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