Motoka Murakami

Motoka Murakami (村上 もとか, Murakami Motoka, born June 3, 1951 in Setagaya, Tokyo) is a Japanese manga artist who writes primarily shōnen manga. He won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for Gakuto Retsuden (ja) in 1982 and the Shogakukan Manga Award twice, for shōnen for Musashi no Ken in 1984 and for general manga in 1996 for Ron, serialized in Big Comic Original from 1991 to 2006.[1][2] In 1998, he received an Excellence Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival for Ron.[3] Jin won the Grand Prize at the 2011 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.[4] On a list published in the beginning of August 2011, he ranked as the 35th best-selling manga artist since January 2010, with 1,901,000 copies sold.[5]

Works

References
  1. Joel Hahn. "Kodansha Manga Awards". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on 2007-08-16. Retrieved 2007-08-21.
  2. 小学館漫画賞：歴代受賞者 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2007-08-19.
  3. "1998[2nd]Japan Media Arts Festival". Japan Media Arts Festival. Retrieved 2008-06-24.
  4. "15th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Winners Announced". Anime News Network. 2 May 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
  5. "Top 50 Manga Creators by Sales Since 2010". Anime News Network. 5 August 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2014.


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