Motoka Murakami

Motoka Murakami (村上 もとか, Murakami Motoka^?, born June 3, 1951 in Setagaya, Tokyo) is a Japanese manga artist who writes primarily shōnen manga. He won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for Gakuto Retsuden in 1982 and the Shogakukan Manga Award twice, for shōnen for Musashi no Ken in 1984 and for general manga in 1996 for Ron, serialized in Big Comic Original from 1991 to 2006.^[1][2] In 1998, he received an Excellence Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival for Ron.^[3]

References

1. ^ Joel Hahn. "Kodansha Manga Awards". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on 2007-08-16. http://web.archive.org/web/20070816031310/http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/kodansha.shtml. Retrieved 2007-08-21. 
2. ^ "小学館漫画賞：歴代受賞者" (in Japanese). Shogakukan. http://comics.shogakukan.co.jp/mangasho/rist.html. Retrieved 2007-08-19. 
3. ^ "1998[2ndJapan Media Arts Festival"]. Japan Media Arts Festival. http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/festival/1998/. Retrieved 2008-06-24. 

External links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Motoka Murakami at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
• Profile at The Ultimate Manga Guide

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Name	Murakami, Motoka
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