Paru Itagaki

Paru Itagaki (板垣 巴留, Itagaki Paru, born September 9, 1993) is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known as the creator of the manga series Beastars, for which she has won the 2018 Manga Taishō, a Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, a Kodansha Manga Award, and a Japan Media Arts Festival Award. She is the daughter of manga artist Keisuke Itagaki.

Paru Itagaki
板垣 巴留
Born (1993-09-09) September 9, 1993[1][2]
Tokyo, Japan
NationalityJapanese
Area(s)Manga artist
Notable works
Awards

Biography

Itagaki began painting in kindergarten, and started drawing manga in the second grade.[3] As a teenager she developed the character Legoshi, an anthropomorphic wolf who would later appear in her manga series Beastars.[4] She cites Disney movies and the artists Nicolas de Crécy and Egon Schiele as among her early influences.[4]

She later attended Musashino Art University, where she studied filmmaking.[1] She continued to pursue manga as a hobby while in university, creating dōjinshi that she would sell at dōjinshi conventions.[5] After being unable to find a job in the film industry, Itagaki submitted her dōjinshi to editors at the publishing company Akita Shoten, which began publishing her short story collection Beast Complex in Weekly Shōnen Champion in 2016.[5] That same year, Weekly Shōnen Champion began serializing Itagaki's critically and commercially acclaimed series Beastars.[6]

In September 2019, Itagaki's autobiographical manga series Paruno Graffiti began serialization in Kiss.[6]

Personal life

Itagaki is highly private about her personal life and wears a chicken mask to obscure her face at all public appearances.[4] Japanese tabloids reported in 2018 that Itagaki is the daughter of Keisuke Itagaki, the creator of the manga series Baki the Grappler; the claim was repeated in April 2019 by Le Monde.[4][7] Itagaki confirmed these reports in a joint interview with her father in the September 2019 issue of Weekly Shonen Champion, stating that she did not wish to disclose her parentage until she was established in the manga industry in order to avoid accusations of nepotism.[7][8]

Works

Serializations
  • Beast Complex (ビーストコンプレックス, Bīsuto Konpurekkusu) (serialized in Weekly Shōnen Champion, 2016–2019; 2021)[9][10]
  • Beastars (ビースターズ, Bīsutāzu) (serialized in Weekly Shōnen Champion, 2016–2020)[11]
  • Paruno Graffiti (パルノグラフィティ, Paru no Gurafiti) (serialized in Kiss, 2019–2020)[6][12]
  • Bota Bota (ボタボタ) (serialized in Weekly Manga Goraku, 2020–present)[13]

One-shots
  • White Beard and Boyne (白ヒゲとボイン, Shiro Hige to Boin) (published in Weekly Manga Goraku, 2018)[14]
  • Manga Noodles (マンガ麺, Manga Men) (published in Monthly Comic Zenon, 2019)[15]

Awards
Year Nominated work CategoryAward ResultNotesRef.
2017 Beastars Male Readers Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Second place [16]
2018 Beastars New Face Award Japan Media Arts Festival Awards, Manga Division Won [17]
Beastars — Manga Taishō Won [18]
Beastars New Artist Prize Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Won [19]
Beastars Shōnen Kodansha Manga Award Won [20]

References
  1. "西村ツチカ×板垣巴留×新宅広二 「動物の擬人化を語る」". PassMarket (in Japanese). Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  2. Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2018. Takarajimasha. 9 December 2017. ISBN 978-4800278319.
  3. Kumazawa, Shiho (14 September 2018). "大ヒット漫画『BEASTARS』 着想を得たのは"小学2年生"の時だった". Aeradot (in Japanese). Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  4. Croquet, Pauline (7 April 2019). "Avec le manga Beastars, le règne animal s'invite dans un lycée". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  5. "板垣恵介先生×板垣巴留先生 対談 レジェンドインタビュー". Weekly Shōnen Champion (in Japanese). 3 October 2019. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  6. Pineda, Rafael Antonio (23 August 2019). "BEASTARS' Paru Itagaki Launches Autobiographical Manga". Anime News Network. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  7. Parker-Dalton, Jacob (19 September 2019). "Paru Itagaki's Father is Indeed Keisuke Itagaki, New Interview Reveals". Otaquest. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  8. "「バキ道」板垣恵介×「BEASTARS」板垣巴留の親子対談が週チャンに掲載". Comic Natalie (in Japanese). 19 September 2019. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  9. "別チャン大リニューアルで阿部共実ら新連載！次号より山本崇一朗の新作も". Comic Natalie (in Japanese). 12 March 2019. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  10. Pineda, Rafael Antonio (7 October 2020). "Beast Complex Manga, the 'Origin of BEASTARS,' Gets Mini-Series in January". Anime News Network. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
  11. Mateo, Alex (23 September 2020). "Beastars Manga Ends in 3 Chapters, Anime Casts Yuuki Kaji". Anime News Network. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  12. Pineda, Rafael Antonio (25 May 2020). "BEASTARS' Paru Itagaki Ends Paruno Graffiti Autobiographical Manga in June". Anime News Network. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  13. Pineda, Rafael Antonio (19 December 2020). "Beastars' Paru Itagaki Launches New Short Manga in Manga Goraku Magazine". Anime News Network. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
  14. "「BEASTARS」の板垣巴留が描く初の人間マンガ、ゴラクに読切で掲載". Comic Natalie (in Japanese). 7 September 2018. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  15. "「BEASTARS」の板垣巴留＆たかし♂が麺の思い出描くグルメエッセイ、ゼノンに". Comic Natalie (in Japanese). 25 April 2019. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  16. Hodgkins, Crystalyn (28 December 2017). "Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Reveals 2018's Series Ranking for Male Readers". Anime News Network. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  17. Hodgkins, Crystalyn (16 March 2018). "In This Corner of the World, Lu over the wall, 'Nee, Mama' Win Media Arts Awards". Anime News Network. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  18. Loo, Egan; Hodgkins, Crystalyn. "Paru Itagaki's BEASTARS Wins 11th Manga Taisho Awards". Anime News Network. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  19. Ressler, Karen (24 April 2018). "Golden Kamuy Wins 22nd Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize's Top Award". Anime News Network. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  20. Sherman, Jennifer (10 May 2018). "42nd Annual Kodansha Manga Awards' Winners Announced". Anime News Network. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
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