*anese manga artistThis article is about the manga artist. For the chess player, see Hikaru Nakamura.

Hikaru Nakamura (中村 光, Nakamura Hikaru, born April 21, 1984, in Shizuoka Prefecture) is a *anese manga artist. She debuted in 2001 with the short story Kairi no Sue (海里の陶), published in Monthly Gangan Wing. She is best known as the creator of the manga series Arakawa Under the Bridge and Saint Young Men, the latter of which won a Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2009. A Nikkei Entertainment magazine article published in August 2011 listed her ninth overall among the top 50 manga creators by sales since 2010, with 5.54 million copies sold. Her artwork has also been featured in two manga exhibitions at the British Museum in London, England. Nakamura gave birth to her first child, a daughter, in November 2011.

Contents

• 1 Works
• 2 Awards
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Works

• Arakawa Under the Bridge (荒川アンダー ザ ブリッジ, Arakawa Andā za Burijji), serialized in Young Gangan (2004–2015)
• Saint Young Men (聖☆おにいさん, Seinto Onīsan), serialized in Monthly Morning Two (2006–present)
• Juni Taisen: Zodiac War (十二大戦, Jūni Taisen), illustration only, serialized in Weekly Young Jump (2015)
• Black Night Parade (ブラックナイトパレード, Burakku Naito Parēdo), serialized in Weekly Young Jump (2016–present)

Awards

References

External links

• Anime and manga portal

• Official Twitter account (in *anese)
• Official website (defunct; link via the Wayback Machine) (in *anese)
• Interview with Jump SQ (defunct; link via the Wayback Machine) (in *anese)
• Interview with Natsume Ono for Monthly Morning's website (in *anese)
• Hikaru Nakamura at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

Special
AwardAward for
Excellence

• Moto Hagio for A Cruel God Reigns (1997)
• Yūji Aoki for Naniwa Kin'yūdō (1998)
• Akira Sasō for Shindō (1999)
• Minetarō Mochizuki for Dragon Head (2000)
• Kotobuki Shiriagari for Yajikita in Deep (2001)
• Kentaro Miura for Berserk (2002)

Creative
Award

• Yumi Hotta and Takeshi Obata for Hikaru no Go (2003)
• Takashi Morimoto for Naniwadora ihon (2004)
• Fumiyo Kōno for Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms (2005)
• Asa Higuchi for Big Windup! (2006)
• Nobuhisa Nozoe, Kazuhisa Iwata and Kyojin Ōnishi for Shinsei Kigeki (2007)
• Toranosuke Shimada for Träumerei (2008)

New Artist
Prize

• Suehiro Maruo for The Strange Tale of Panorama Island (2009)
• Haruko Ichikawa for Mushi to Uta (2010)
• Hiromu Arakawa for Fullmetal Alchemist (2011)
• Yu Itō for Shut Hell (2012)
• Miki Yamamoto for Sunny Sunny Ann! (2013)
• Machiko Kyō for Mitsuami no Kamisama (2014)
• Yo*oki Ōima for A Silent Voice (2015)
• Yuki Andō for Machida-kun no Sekai (2016)
• Haruko *ota for Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju (2017)
• Paru Itagaki for Beastars (2018)
• Sansuke Yamada for Areyo Hoshikuzu (2019)
• Rettō Tajima for Mizu wa Umi ni Mukatte Nagareru (2020)
• Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe for Frieren (2021)
• Natsuko Taniguchi for Kyō*su no Katasumi de Seishun wa Hajimaru and Konya Sukiyaki da yo (2022)

Short Story
Award

• Hisaichi Ishii for Gendai Shisō no Sōnanshātachi (2003)
• Risu Akizuki for OL Shinkaron (2004)
• Rieko Saibara for Jōkyō Monogatari and Mainichi Kaasan (2005)
• Risa Itō for One Woman, Two Cats, Hey Pitan!, Onna no Mado (2006)
• Hiromi Mori*a for Ōsaka Hamlet (2007)
• Yumiko Ōshima for Cher Gou-Gou...mon pe* chat, mon pe* ami (2008)
• Hikaru Nakamura for Saint Young Men (2009)
• Mari Yamazaki for Thermae Romae (2010)
• Keisuke Yamashina for C-kyū Salaryman Kōza, Papa wa Nanda ka Wakaranai (2011)
• Roswell Hosoki for Sake no Hosomichi (2012)
• Yoshiie Gōda for Love of Machine (2013)
• Yuki Shikawa for Onnoji (2014)
• Sensha Yoshida (2015)
• Tatsuya Nakazaki for Jimihen (2016)
• Kahoru *aya for Yomawari Neko (2017)
• Taro Yabe for Oya-san to Boku (2018)
• Ken Koyama for Little Miss P (2019)
• Yama Wayama for Muchū sa, Kimi ni (2020)
• Hiroko Nobara for Kieta Mama Tomo and Tsuma wa Kuchi o Kiite Kuremasen (2021)
• Izumi Okaya for Ii Toshi o and Ha*okuren wa Kirei ni Chiranai (2022)