Yoshitoki Ōima (大今 良時, Ōima Yoshitoki, born March 15, 1989) is a Japanese manga artist and writer, best known for her manga series A Silent Voice and To Your Eternity.
Yoshitoki Ōima
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大今 良時
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| Born | (1989-03-15) March 15, 1989 (age 35)
Ōgaki, Japan
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| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation | Manga artist |
| Known for | A Silent Voice To Your Eternity |
Ōima was born on March 15, 1989, in Ōgaki, Japan, as the third daughter of a sign language interpreter mother and has an older sister and an older brother. Due to her mother's work as a sign language interpreter Ōima was inspired to write the A Silent Voice manga series where she got help by her mother and her sister working on the series.[1][2]
Her first manga was Mardock Scramble which was an adaptation of the same-named novel written by Tow Ubukata and was released in 2009.[2] She was also responsible for an illustration of the ending sequence of the ninth episode of Attack on Titan.[3] After her success with A Silent Voice Yoshitoki Ōima worked alongside other manga artists on a collaboration manga called Ore no 100-wame!!. In 2016 Yoshitoki Ōima released her third full manga series under the moniker To Your Eternity.
In 2015 , Yoshitoki Ōima won the New Creator Prize for A Silent Voice at the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.[4] A Silent Voice was nominated for an Eisner Award a year later,[5] the Rudolf-Dirks-Award and the Max & Moritz Prize in 2017 and 2018.[6][7] In 2018 she won at French Japan Expo the Daruma d′Or Manga for A Silent Voice and the Daruma de la Meilleure Nouvelle Série for To Your Eternity.[8]