Keiko TAKEMIYA (Persona)

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  • Nombre artístico: Keiko TAKEMIYA [竹宮 惠子] (たけみや けいこ), Mostrar todos
    Tipo: Persona
    Sexo: Feminino
    Signos del Zodiaco: ♒ Acuario
    Nacido/a: Febrero 1950
    Lugar de nacimiento: Japón
    Página web: Tra Pro
    Actividades: Mangaka: 44, Participación: 4

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Keiko Takemiya is a Japanese mangaka and Dean of the Department of Manga at Kyoto Seika University. She lives in Kanagawa Prefecture in the city of Kamakura.

Takemiya is one of the earliest successful crossover mangaka. She has published both shoujo and shounen manga in genres ranging from high school romance to historical drama to hard science fiction. She is credited with “inventing” the shounen-ai genre. She is considered one of the most influential figures in shoujo manga. Her best-known works are: the shoujo historical drama “Kaze to Ki no Uta” and the shounen science fiction drama “Terra e …”, both of which won the 1979 Shogakukan Manga Award as “best manga” in their respective categories of shoujo and shounen. Takemiya is one of the members of the 24-Gumi group.

Takemiya was born in Tokushima, Japan, in 1950. While still in middle school, she began drawing manga but kept it a secret from her parents. At the age of 17, she entered Mushi Pro’s COM magazine competition with her manga “Kokonotsu no Yuujou” and won the Newcomer Award. A year later, in 1968, she made her professional debut as a mangaka in Shuueisha’s Margaret magazine with the manga “Ringo no Tsumi”, which also won an award.

Between 1970 and 1973, she lived with Moto Hagio in a flat in Ouizumi in Nerima, Tokyo. Her friend Norie Masuyama lived nearby. Moto Hagio described her as Takemiya’s “brain staff”. Masuyama introduced them to magazines, such as Barazoku, and inspired Takemiya and Hagio to draw shounen-ai. In December 1970, Takemiya published her short story “Sunroom Nite”, considered the first published shounen-ai manga containing the earliest known kiss between two men in a shoujo manga.

After the publication of her 1972 shoujo romance “Sora ga Suki!”, Takemiya went on a study trip to Europe to learn more about the culture. She had been planning her psychodrama “Kaze to Ki no Uta” for some time – a narrative dealing with sensitive issues such as racism, homophobia, paedophilia, sexual abuse and drug abuse. However, her publisher, Shougakukan, was strongly opposed to publishing such a story but relented after many years of negotiations; serialisation began in 1976 and ended in 1984 without censoring the controversial sexual themes and depictions. The very first page of the manga showed a “sex scene” between two men. “Kaze to Ki no Uta” was groundbreaking with its depictions of “open sexual relations” and pioneering for the entire manga industry and doujinshi circles.

In the late 1970s, Takemiya became editor of June magazine, an erotic manga magazine for adult women published by Nanae Sasaya’s husband, publisher Toshihiko Sagawa. BBC News called Takemiya “the godmother of manga sex in Japan”.

Between 1977 and 1980, Takemiya worked on another highly successful series, “Terra e …”, which won Japan’s prestigious Seiun Award in 1978, among other awards, and received an anime film in 1980, followed by a TV series in 2007. Many of her manga were adapted as anime, including “Natsu e no Tobira” (1981) and “Kaze to Ki no Uta: Seinaru ka na” (1987). In 1983, she was “Special Character Designer” in Sunrise’s anime film “Crusher Joe”, among other well-known mangaka.

In 2009, she was a member of the selection committee for the Osamu Tezuka Culture Award.

In 2014, Takemiya was awarded the Medal of Honor on the purple ribbon by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications for her services to Japanese manga.

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  • Keiko TAKEMIYA
    Idioma original: 竹宮 惠子
    Lectura: たけみや けいこ
  • Keiko TAKEMIYA
    Idioma original: 竹宮 恵子
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