Santa Inoue

Santa Inoue

Infobox comics creator
name = Santa Inoue


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birthdate = 1968
location = Paris, France
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nationality = Japanese
area = writer, penciller and inker
alias =


notable works = "Tokyo Tribe"
"Tokyo Tribe 2"
"Tokyo Graffiti"
awards =
website = http://www.santa.co.jp/nihongo|Santa Inoue|井上三太|Inōe Santa|born 1968 in Paris, France is a Japanese manga artist and owner of the Santastic! clothing line. Inoue's manga series contain a great influence from hip-hop culture, with some of the characters being modeled after rappers. Santa Inoue also designed oen of the album covers for the hip-hop group De La Soul. Santa Inoue is correctly pronounced "Säntä Inoé".

Biography

Inoue debuted with the work "Murder" in 1989, winning the Young Sunday Prize for newcomers. He started his first major work, "Bunpuku Chagama Daimaō", the following year. The first installment in his "Tokyo Tribe" series was published as a standalone volume in 1993, with the sequal series being serialized in urban fashion magazine "boon".

Santastic!

Santastic! Entertainment

Santa Inoue's manga are published under the "Santastic! Entertainment" line, sometimes misspelled as "Santastic! Enterteinment". Santa Inoue is mostly known for his "Tokyo" line of series.

* 1990 - "Bunpuku Chagama Daimaō", serialized in "Young Sunday".
* 1992 - "Tamashī Ressha", serialized in "Young Sunday".
* 1993 - "Tokyo Tribe", serialized in "Weekly Young Jump".
* 1994 - "The Neighbour No. 13", partially serialized in "Comic Scholar".
* 1995 - "Mon Mon", serialized in "Manga Pachinker".
* 1995 - "Tirauchi Kantarō", serialized in "Quick Japan".
* 1995 - "Born 2 Die", serialized in "Quick Japan".
* 1996 - "Santa Inōe", a compilation of Inoue's short stories, including his debut, "Murder".
* 1997 - "Tokyo Tribe 2", serialized in "Boon".
* 2000 - "Tokyo Drive", serialized in "Young Magazine".
* 2001 - "Tokyo Graffiti", serialized in "Weekly Young Jump".
* 2002 - "Santa Inōe 2", a second compilation of short works.
* 2007 - "Tokyo Burger", serialized in "Ollie".
* 2008 - "Tokyo Tribe 2 Spin Off!", serialized intermittently in several magazines.
* 2008 - "Tokyo Tribe 3", currently serialized in "Ollie".

Santastic! Wear

Santa Inoue has a massive line of clothes. These are put under the "Santastic! Wear" line. The characters from "Tokyo Tribe" are put excessively on the T-shirts.

Santastic! Mobile

Anime and manga series from Santa Inoue's "Tokyo" line are available online through "Santastic! Mobile".

Santastic! Gangu

Santa Inoue has several mascots that he draws, mainly "Larry Frinco". Larry Frico is what to appears as a gopher with a baseball cap, and an oversized tounge. A limited special edition of "Tokyo Graffiti", called the "Special Love edition" featured Larry Frinco on the cover. That and a character called "Hasheem" who has a afro, and various different types of ghetto style clothes. However, these characters, mixed with characters from many other Santa Inoue series, are made into figure versions and put under the "Santastic! Gangu" line. "Gangu" is dirivative of the word "Gang" in Japanese.

Santastic! TV

"Santastic! TV" is a series of YouTube videos by Santa Inoue. They feature the latest in Santa Inoue's world.

;nihongo|"Santastic! TV #1"|SANTASTIC! TV #1:Debut video for "Santastic! TV", Santa Inoue talks with two black people.

;nihongo|"Santastic! TV #2"|SANTASTIC! TV #2:Santa Inoue talks to his fellow fans as they line up for the opening of the Santastic! Shop. One fan picks up a copy of the first issue of "Tokyo Tribe 2 / Santastic! Magazine "Saru".

*nihongo|"Santastic! TV#3"|SANTASTIC! TV#3
*nihongo|"Santastic!TV#4"|SANTASTIC!TV#4
*nihongo|"Santastic!TV#5"|SANTASTIC!TV#5
*nihongo|"Santastic!TV#6"|SANTASTIC!TV#6
*nihongo|"Santastic!TV#7"|SANTASTIC!TV#7
*nihongo|"Santastic!TV#8"|SANTASTIC!TV#8
*nihongo|"Santastic! TV#9"|SANTASTIC! TV#9
*nihongo|"Santastic! TV#10 ~Tokyo Burger~"|SANTASTIC! TV#10 ~TOKYO BURGER~
*nihongo|"Santastic! TV#11 ~Tokyo Graffiti~"|SANTASTIC! TV#11 ~TOKYO GRAFFITI~
*nihongo|"Santastic! TV#11 ~Santastic! 5th Anniversary on 2007.12.6!!~"|SANTASTIC! TV#11 ~SANTASTIC! 5th Anniversary on 2007.12.6!!~
*nihongo|"Santastic! TV #13"|SANTASTIC! TV #13
*nihongo|"Santastic! TV#13 Nikoniko Dōga Kaze"|SANTASTIC! TV#13 ニコニコ動画風
*nihongo|"Santastic! TV#14 ~Trip to Shanghai ~"|SANTASTIC! TV#14 ~Trip To Shanghai ~
*nihongo|"Santastic!TV#15"|SANTASTIC!TV#15 now nihongo|"Santastic! TV#15 - Hong Kong Signing"|SANTASTIC! TV#15 - Hong Kong Signing

External links

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* [http://jp.youtube.com/user/Hori2Williams Santa Inoue's YouTube account (Hori2Williams)]
* [http://www.s-manga.net/author/santa_inoue.html Santa Inoue's page at S-Manga.Net]


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