Shirow Miwa
Born November 9, 1978 is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator. He is best known as the writer and artist for the Dogs manga series, but has also contributed illustrations to various tribute books, and magazines, including Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan. Miwa sometimes publishes under the circle name of m.m.m. + Gee.
Also recorded as Miwa Shirow
Shirow Miwa
- Name
- Shirow Miwa 三輪士郎
- Born
- 9 November 1978
- Birthplace
- Toyama, Toyama Prefecture, Japan
- Nationality
- Japanese
- Occupation
- mangaka, illustrator and comics artist.
- Languages
- Japanese.
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Born November 9, 1978 is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator. He is best known as the writer and artist for the Dogs manga series, but has also contributed illustrations to various tribute books, and magazines, including Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan. Miwa sometimes publishes under the circle name of m.m.m. + Gee.
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Biography
Biography
He is also an official member of Doujin Band Supercell as Illustrator and Designer. Miwa also worked on the character designs for most games in the 7th Dragon series and Soul Hackers 2.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Shirow Miwa 三輪士郎 • Born — 9 November 1978 • Birthplace — Toyama, Toyama Prefecture, Japan • Nationality — Japanese • Area — Character design, Writer, Manga artist • Alias — Ikura Moto • Notable Works — Dogs • Manga — Yes • Website — https: mmm-gee.net/
Works
Works
Shirow's debut manga, Black Mind, a short series created in collaboration with Darai Kusanagi, was serialized in Ultra Jump in 1999, and was followed by his first solo series, Dogs, which was serialized from 2000 to 2001. The sequel, Dogs: Bullets & Carnage, began serialization in 2005. In August 2008, the Dogs prequel and sequel were announced to have been licensed by Viz Media; Dogs was subsequently released in April 2009 as Dogs, Volume 0: Prelude using the Bullets & Carnage logo. In 2009, Dogs was adapted into a 4 episode OVA series by David Production. Shirow also made the character designs for the anime Joker Game and Kiznaiver in 2016. He has also worked with Rooster Teeth to make a novel for their animated series RWBY, which was published on May 19, 2017.
Anime
Anime
• Kiznaiver (character designer) • Joker Game (character designer) • Psycho-pass (character designer)
Video games
Video games
• 7th Dragon 2020, 7th Dragon 2020-II, 7th Dragon III Code: VFD (artist and character designer) • Soul Hackers 2 (character designer)
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 1 entries
1978
Shirow Miwa born at Toyama.
Publications
• Black Mind • Devil May Cry light novel • Dogs • Dogs: Bullets & Carnage • RWBY
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Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Miwa, Shirow. Dogs: Prelude, Volume 0: Shirow Miwa: Books. VIZ Media LLC. 14 April 2009. 978-1421527024.
- 2.Shueisha. BACK NUMBERS 2000年11月号.
- 3.Shueisha. BACK NUMBERS 2001年7月号.
- 4.Shueisha. BACK NUMBERS 2005年7月特大号.
- 5.Anime News Network. Viz Media Picks Up Miwa's Dogs, Mase's Ikigami Manga. 2008-07-25.
- 6.Kadokawa Shoten. Devil May Cry: ライトノベル.
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