Yumi Tamura
2021 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga - Don't Call It Mystery • Manga — Yes born September 5th in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan is a Japanese manga artist. Her debut short story, Ore-tachi no Zettai Jikan ("This is the Time for Us"), was published in 1983 in Bessatsu Shōjo Comic and received the 1983 Shogakukan Grand Prize for new artists. Since then, she has completed more than 50 compiled volumes of short stories and continuing series.
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Yumi Tamura
- Name
- Yumi Tamura 田村由美
- Birthplace
- Wakayama, Japan
- Awards
- 1993 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga - Basara 2007 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga - 7 Seeds
- Born
- 1953 · Wakayama Prefecture.
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- mangaka · comics artist
- Known for
- Tomoe ga Yuku! · 7 Seeds · Basara
- Honours
- Shogakukan Manga Award
- Languages
- Japanese
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2021 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga - Don't Call It Mystery • Manga — Yes born September 5th in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan is a Japanese manga artist. Her debut short story, Ore-tachi no Zettai Jikan ("This is the Time for Us"), was published in 1983 in Bessatsu Shōjo Comic and received the 1983 Shogakukan Grand Prize for new artists. Since then, she has completed more than 50 compiled volumes of short stories and continuing series.
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Popular works such as Tomoe ga Yuku! ("There goes Tomoe") exemplify her work, but she made her reputation with the long-running shōjo action/adventure series Basara, for which she won the 1993 Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōjo category. Her series 7 Seeds, for which she won a second Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōjo category in 2007, ran in the anthology magazine Flowers in Japan. Chicago was her first series to be published in North America. In 2021, she won a third Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga for her latest series Don't Call It Mystery. In addition to manga, she has published four novels with illustrations by herself, as well as doing character designs for Square's Super Famicom RPG Live A Live Distant Future chapter, "The Mechanical Heart."
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• Name — Yumi Tamura 田村由美 • Birthplace — Wakayama, Japan • Area — Manga artist • Notable Works — Basara 7 Seeds Don't Call It Mystery • Awards — 1993 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga - Basara 2007 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga - 7 Seeds
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• Ore-tachi no Zettai Jikan (1983) • Shinwa ni Natta Gogo (1986) • 17 Nichime no Chopin (1987) • Ano Natsu ga Owaru (1987) • Tomoe ga Yuku! (1987–1990) • Bishop no Wa (1990) • Basara (1990–1998) • Roppongi Shinjuu (1991) • Boku ga Tenshi wo Unda Riyuu (1992) • Madonna ni Tsugu (1992) • Boku ga Boku wo Wasureta Riyuu (1993) • X-Day (1993) • Boku ga Santa ni Atta Riyuu (1994) • Boku ga Gomi wo Suteta Riyuu (1995 • Megami ga Ochita Hi (1995) • Hearts (1996) • Toorima 1991 (1998) • Wild Com. (1999) • Hare Tokidoki Yami (1999) • Odoru Kyoushitsu (1999) • Ouji-kun (1999) • Box Kei! (2000) • Chicago (2000–2001) • Boku ga Juuban Shoubusuru Wake (2001) • 7 Seeds (2001-2017) • Wangan Jungle (2002) • Chotto Eiyuushite Mitai (2003) • Bokura no Mura ni wa Mizuumi ga atta (2007) • Tamura Yumi the Best Selection (2008) • Neko Mix Genkitan Toraji (2008-ongoing) • Don't Call It Mystery (2017–)
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1953
Yumi Tamura born at Wakayama Prefecture.
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- 1.Liste des lauréats du prix Shōgakukan. Shōgakukan.
- 2.Il s'agit de la carte Roaring Invasion - Red Zone (轟く侵略 レッドゾーン ), issue de l'extension Kouraihen Expansion Pack 2: Le fléau du Roi Interdit (王来篇拡張パック第2弾 禁時王の凶来)
- 3.Tamu Tamu Time, in Basara volume 19, Shogakukan, Octobre 1996, page 188
- 4.小学館漫画賞受賞作品.
- 5.Joanna Cayanan. Takehiko Inoue, Yumi Tamura et Atsushi Wada récompensés par l'Agence pour les Affaires Culturelles du Japon. Anime News Network. 2024-03-04.
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