Fumi Yoshinaga

is a Japanese mangaka, known for her shōjo and boys' love works. She attended the prestigious Keio University in Tokyo. Yoshinaga debuted in 1994 with "Tsuki to sandaru", serialized in "Hanaoto" magazine. Of Yoshinaga's many works, several have been licensed internationally. She was also selected and exhibited as one of the "Twenty Major Mangaka Who Contributed to the World of Shojo Manga (World War II to Present)" for Professor Masami Toku's exhibition, "Shojo Manga: Girl Power!" at CSU-Chico. Outside of her work with Japanese publishers, she also self-publishes original doujinshi on a regular basis, most notably for "Antique Bakery". Yoshinaga has also drawn fan parodies of "Slam Dunk", "Rose of Versailles", and "Legend of Galactic Heroes". Although little is known about Yoshinaga's personal life, she mentions that her favourite operas are those by Mozart in the author's note to "Solfege".

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Illustration Credits

;Boys' Love novels
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;Miscellaneous
* – A book about the state of manga today by famed manga scholar, NATSUME Fusanosuke
* – Mag-Garden
* – Mag-Garden
* – new Japanese edition of Denis Diderot's "Jacques the Fatalist and his Master"
* – Yoshinaga interviews a selection of other mangaka

US license list

[license announcement date: US title, US publisher]
* October 2004: "Antique Bakery", Digital Manga Publishing
* February 2006: "Gerard & Jacques", BLU Manga
* July 2006: "Solfege", Digital Manga Publishing
* July 2006: "The Moon and the Sandals", Digital Manga Publishing
* August 2006: "Flower of Life", Digital Manga Publishing
* October 2006: "The First Class Is Civil Law", 801 Media, Inc.
* December 2006 (confirmed during the New York Comic Con '07): "Lovers in the Night", BLU Manga
* December 2006 (confirmed during the New York Comic Con '07): "Truly Kindly", BLU Manga
* February 2007: "Don't Say Anymore Darling", Juné
* March 2007: "Garden Dreams", Digital Manga Publishing

Awards

* "Antique Bakery" was the winner of the 26th Kodansha Manga Award in the shōjo manga category for 2002.cite web | url=http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/kodansha.shtml | author=Joel Hahn | title=Kodansha Manga Awards | work=Comic Book Awards Almanac | accessdate=2007-08-21]
* "Ōoku" won a special prize at The Japanese Association of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy's fifth annual Sense of Gender awards in 2005.
* "Ōoku" won an Excellence Award for manga at the 2006 Japan Media Arts Festival.
* "Ōoku" was nominated for the eleventh annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in April 2007.
* "Antique Bakery", as released in the US by Digital Manga Publishing, was nominated for a 2007 Eisner Award in a new category devoted to Japanese works entitled "Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Japan."
* The first volume of the Digital Manga Publishing version of "The Moon and the Sandals" was nominated for inclusion in the 2008 Great Graphic Novels for Teens list by Yalsa (August 2007).
* "Ōoku", "Flower of Life" and "Kinou nani tabeta?" were nominated for the inaugural Manga Taisho ("Cartoon Grand Prize") award in January 2008. cite web | url=http://www.mangataisho.com/blog/2008/01/2008.html | author=ManTai | title=Manga Taisho 2008 Nomination Announcement!| work=ManTai Official Blog | accessdate=2008-01-21]
* "Ōoku" was nominated for the twelfth annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in March 2008.
* Fumi Yoshinaga was nominated for the Best Writer/Artist award in the 2008 Eisner Awards in April 2008.cite web | url=http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_eisners_main.shtml#nominees | author=Comic-Con International | title=2008 Eisner Awards: 2008 Eisner Nominations Most Diverse Yet | work=Comic-Con International Official Site | accessdate=2008-04-14]

References

External links

* [http://yoshinagafc.web.infoseek.co.jp/ The Fumi Yoshinaga Resource Index] （Japanese fan site）
* [http://www.dmpbooks.com/ Digital Manga Publishing] (English licensor)
* [http://www.blumanga.com/ BLU Manga] （English licensor）
* [http://www.csuchico.edu/~mtoku/vc/Exhibitions/girlsmangaka/girlsmangaka_sites.html Shojo Manga: Girl Power!] (English exhibition site)
* [http://gender-sf.org/sog/2005/2005_02.html/ Gender-SF 2005 SoG Awards: YOSHINAGA Fumi] (Japanese)
* [http://www.incarnadine.com/yoshinaga/ Let Them Eat Cake! The TAFL-approved YOSHINAGA Fumi fanlisting] (English)