*anese manga artist

Akimi Yoshida (吉田 秋生, Yoshida Akimi, born August 12, 1956) is a *anese manga artist and a graduate of Musashino Art University. She made her professional debut in 1977 with the short story Chotto Fushigi na Geshukunin (ちょっと不思議な下宿人, "A Slightly Strange Neighbor"), published in Bessatsu Shōjo Comic magazine. Yoshida is best known for the crime thriller series Banana Fish, which received an anime adaptation produced by MAPPA in 2018.

She is a three time recipient of the Shogakukan Manga Award – for Kisshō Tennyo in 1983 and for Yasha in 2001, both in the shōjo (girls') manga category, and for Umimachi Diary in 2015 in the general manga category. In 2007, she received an Excellence Award for manga at the 11th *an Media Arts Festival for Umimachi Diary, which was later adapted into a feature film *led Our Little Sister. In 2013, she was awarded the 6th Manga Taishō, again for Umimachi Diary.

Contents

• 1 Works
  • 1.1 Series
  • 1.2 Short story collections
  • 1.3 Art books
• 2 Awards
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Works

Series

• California Story (カリフォルニア物語), 1978–1981
• Kawa yori mo Nagaku Yuruyaka ni (河よりも長くゆるやかに), 1983–1985
• Kisshō Tennyo (吉祥天女), 1983–1984
• Sakura no Sono (櫻の園), 1985–1986
• Banana Fish (バナナフィッシュ), 1985–1994
• Hanako Gekki (ハナコ月記), 1988–1994
• Lovers' Kiss (ラヴァーズ・キス), 1995–1996
• Yasha (YASHA―夜叉―), 1996–2002
• Eve no Nemuri (イヴの眠り), 2003–2005
• Umimachi Diary (海街diary), 2006–2018
• Utagawa Hyakkei (詩歌川百景), 2019–present

Short story collections

• Yumemiru Koro wo Sugite mo (夢みる頃をすぎても), 1983

Art books

• California Tuning, 1982
• The Making of Bobby's Girl, 1985
• Angel Eyes: Illustration Book Banana Fish, 1994 (1st ed.), 2018 (reprint)
• Double Helix: Illustration Book Yasha, 2003

Awards

References

External links

• Anime and manga portal

• Official 40th anniversary blog at Monthly Flowers (in *anese)
• Akimi Yoshida at Anime News Network's encyclopedia