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Yoshitoshi Abe
安倍 吉俊
Abe in May 2007
Born (1971-08-03) August 3, 1971 (age 52)
Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
Alma materTokyo University of the Arts (MFA)
Occupation(s)Manga artist, illustrator, screenwriter, character designer
Years active1994-present
Websiteabworks.blog83.fc2.com

Yoshitoshi Abe (安倍 吉俊, Abe Yoshitoshi, born August 3, 1971), also stylized as yoshitoshi ABe, is a Japanese graphic artist who works predominantly in anime and manga. He first gained fame in his work on the avant-garde anime Serial Experiments Lain. He is also responsible for the concept and character design for the series NieA_7. He is the creator of the dōjinshi Haibane Renmei, which was also adapted into an anime.

He is a colleague and friend of Chiaki J. Konaka, with whom he collaborated on the series Serial Experiments Lain and Texhnolyze. He usually uses the romaji form of his name instead of the kanji, with the "B" in "ABe" capitalized, as a reminder of his early works, for which he used the pen name "AB".

Abe first began his career as a teen in Tokyo who was first recognized as a graffiti artist, who regularly got into legal problems with his art. His concepts for all his later works are said to be inspired by this time of his life and has projected a dark theme into his anime character designs.

He is known to be a fairly tech-savvy manga artist,[1] drawing a sketch with just his finger and an application on an iPad.[2] He released self-published dōjinshi on digital support bypassing the traditional print publishers with Pochiyama at the Pharmacy in 2008 aimed at iPhone and iPod Touch and I am an Alien, I have a Question in 2010 for Kindle.[1][3]

Personal life[edit]

On November 11, 2011, Abe married artist Sasaki Yukari, his manga assistant since 2010.[4] Their daughter was born on September 21, 2012.[5]

Works[edit]

Anime[edit]

Music[edit]

Video games[edit]

Printed works[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Thompson, Jason (May 18, 2010). "Manga 2.0: Yoshitoshi ABe's Digital Dojinshi". Comics Journal. Archived from the original on June 10, 2015. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
  • ^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (April 15, 2010). "Lain's Yoshitoshi ABe Demos iPad Finger-Painting App (Updated)". Anime News Network (April 16, 2010 ed.). Retrieved August 10, 2019.
  • ^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (March 11, 2010). "New Yoshitoshi ABe Manga Now Available on Kindle". Anime News Network. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
  • ^ ABe, Yoshitoshi (November 11, 2011). "Nyūseki-shimashita" 入籍しました. ABlog (in Japanese). Retrieved August 10, 2019.
  • ^ ABe, Yoshitoshi (October 16, 2012). "Akachan ga Umaremashita" 赤ちゃんが生まれました. ABlog (in Japanese). Retrieved August 10, 2019.
  • ^ a b ABe, Yoshitoshi. "Lain Men: Yoshitoshi ABe" (Interview). Interviewed by Anime Jump. Archived from the original on September 26, 2007. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
  • ^ "'Fenomeno Mitsuru ki yoru ishi wa kowagaranai' Bijuarunoberu-ban" 『フェノメノ 美鶴木夜石は怖がらない』ビジュアルノベル版. Nitroplus. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
  • ^ "Ame no Furu Basho" 雨の降る場所 [The Place the Rain Falls], Eureka (in Japanese), 42 (12), Seidosha: 157–184, October 2010, ISBN 978-4-7917-0214-5
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