*anese manga artist

Tetsuya Chiba (千葉 徹彌 or ちばてつや, Chiba Tetsuya, born January 11, 1939) is a *anese manga artist famous for his sports stories.

He was born in Chuo, Tokyo, *an, but lived most of his early childhood in Shenyang, Liaoning when northeast China was colonized by *an during the Second Sino-*anese War. His father was working in a paper factory when they lived in China. Two of his younger brothers are manga artists: Akio Chiba, and Shigeyuki Chiba who is almost completely unknown outside *an, despite writing many popular sports manga in *an. Shigeyuki Chiba works under the pen name Taro Nami. Chiba's works include A*a no Joe, his best known work, and Notari Matsutarō. Many of his early *les are still in print due to continued popularity. He lives in Nerima, Tokyo.

Contents

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

History

At the end of the Sino-*anese War, Chiba's family lived in the attic of a work-acquaintance of his father until they could find a way to get back to *an. In 1950, while in elementary school, he made a manga club with his friends. He created his first official manga, *ushu no Semushi, (The Hunchback Avenger), in 1956. In 1958, he made his professional debut in Shōjo Book with Butōkai no Shōjo. In the 1960s, he wrote shōnen and shōjo manga at the same time. In 1965 he married his wife, Yukiko. He is personally friends with Moto Hagio and Leiji Matsumoto.

He has received several awards for his manga, including the Kodansha Children's Manga Award for 1, 2, 3, & 4, 5, 6, Kodansha Culture Award for Ore wa Teppei, and the *anese Cartoonist *ociation Award and Shogakukan Manga Award for Notari Matsutaro. In 2001 he was awarded the Award from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology for his work on youth sports manga. In July 2012 he was appointed as the chairman of the *an Cartoonists *ociation after Takashi Yanase stepped down due to age and health reasons. In Fall 2012 he was awarded with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, by the *anese government.

Chiba's series Harris no Kaze, A*a no Joe, Akane-chan, Ore wa Teppei, A*a Tenki ni Naare and Notari Masutaro have all received anime adaptations. Yuki no Taiyou received a short pilot film in 1972, which was Hayao Miyazaki's solo directorial debut, and an animated film for Kaze no Yo ni premiered in June 2016.

Works

Listed chronologically.

• Chikai no Makyū (Weekly Shōnen Magazine, Kodansha, Jan 1961–Dec 1962, created by Kazuya Fu*oto)
• 1•2•3 to 4•5•Roku (Shōjo Club, Kodansha, Jan–Dec 1962)
• Shidenkai no Taka (Weekly Shōnen Magazine, July 1963–January 1965)
• Harris no Kaze (Weekly Shōnen Magazine, Apr 1965-Nov 1967)
• Misokkasu (Shōjo Friend, Kodansha, August 1966–August 1967)
• A*a no Joe (Weekly Shōnen Magazine, January 1968–June 1973, written by Asao Takamori)
• Akane-chan (Shōjo Friend, April 6, 1968–September 29, 1968)
• Kaze no Yō ni (Shojo Friend, 1969)
• Hotaru Minako (Weekly Shōnen Magazine, September 1972)
• Ore wa Teppei (Weekly Shōnen Magazine, August 1973–April 1980)
• Notari Matsutarō (Big Comic, Shogakukan, August 1973–June 1993 and October 1995–May 1998)
• A*a Tenki ni Naare (Weekly Shōnen Magazine, January 1981–May 1991)
• Shōnen yo Racket o Idake (Weekly Shōnen Magazine, May 1992–June 1994)

References

External links

• Chiba Tetsuya's blog (in *anese)
• Tetsuya Chiba at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Chiba Tetsuya Profile (in *anese)

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)