![]() This choice of an alter-ego says much about Arakawa's unpretentious (yet consistent) style in writing. It was recently announced that Silverspoon is receiving an anime adaptation by Aniplex.Īrakawa's self-portrait is usually that of a bespectacled cow, as she was born and raised on a dairy farm. As of April 2012, it had 2.5 million copies printed, a number greatly aided by the winning of the 5th Manga Taisho Award. Regarded at first with suspicion (and even discontent) by her most hardcore fans for not falling in the "fantasy" category, Silver Spoon has gathered growing attention from the media and critics. Married and mother of two children, Arakawa has secured a contract with Shogakugan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday in 2011 and is currently publishing the first non-fantasy series of her career, Silver Spoon. While publishing Fullmetal Alchemist, Arakawa also worked on other pieces, among one-shots and series, mainly the dark humor manga Raiden-18 (2005 – present), the one-shot Sōten no Kōmori (2006), and the long series Hero Tales (2006–2010). She has won the award in the Shonen category in 2003. It has also rendered Arakawa one of the most prestigious awards given to a mangaka in Japan: the Annual Shogakugan Manga Award. The success of the manga has rendered two animated series and an extensive franchise. Initially, it was regarded by the critics with disinterest, but it rapidly gained popularity by its quality and thickness of plot. The real Arakawa (center) at the 2004 Shogakugan Awards.Īrakawa's next manga would turn her into a worldwide known mangaka: Hagane no Renkinjutsushi, aka Fullmetal Alchemist, started to be published in August 2001 and had regular monthly chapters up to its finale, in June 2010. ![]() The series has currently 4 chapters and there has been rumors of its return. The following piece was the series Shanghai Yōmakikai (2000–2006), an irregular and discontinued series telling the story of a Demon-hunter’s Office in a futuristic Shangai. The winning of this contest also resulted in a contract with Enix, and the publisher branch, GanGan, was, thereafter, publishing most of her works. Her first professional solo manga was Stray Dog (1999), a one-shot that was published by Enix after winning the “9th 21st Century Shounen GanGan Award” contest. After that, she was accepted as an assistant to the mangaka Etō Hiroyuki, known for his manga Mahōjin Guru Guru. At the time, she used the alias Edmund Arakawa. One of the first paid jobs Arakawa had as a mangaka was making short comics (the otherwise known as 4koma) for a magazine called Gamest, where she made parodies of the games portrayed in the issues of the magazine. Ideas from this fanzine would be later incorporated into the manga Hero Tales. As that period ended, she moved to Tokyo to pursue her dream of becoming a mangaka and swore to her parents she would only return home once she was able to make a living out of manga.Īrakawa started working with manga making doujins with her friends, one of the most known being Shishi Juushin Enbu, a co-work with her friend Zhang Fei Long. She went to an agricultural high school and, as she graduated, agreed with her parents she would help them at the farm for 7 years and, in this meantime, would take regular oil painting lessons at town. As a child, Arakawa dreamt of discovering what was beyond the farms and looked up to the mangaka profession (manga writer) as being ideal, “light” and carefree. Kinnikuman was one of her favorite manga. She said manga had always been among her hobbies and that she read and collected manga of all genres, but was partial to Weekly Shōnen Jump and Weekly Shōnen Sunday (a magazine to which Arakawa now has a contract, publishing the manga Silver Spoon). As a teen, she helped her parents at the farm chores and played on the fields. Her family owned a dairy and potatoes farm and Hiromi was raised there along with several sisters. Hiromi Arakawa (荒川 |弘美) was born in Tokachi, a sub-prefecture in the northernmost island of Japan, Hokkaido.
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