Taiyō Matsumoto (Redirected from Taiyo Matsumoto)
Taiyō Matsumoto | |
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Born | October 25, 1967 |
Area(s) | Manga artist |
Notable works | Tekkonkinkreet, Ping Pong, Sunny |
Awards | Japan Cartoonists Association Award, 2001 for GoGo Monster
Japan Media Arts Festival, 2007 for Takemitsuzamurai Eisner Awards, 2008 for Tekkon Kinkreet Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, 2011 for Takemitsuzamurai with Issei Eifuku Cartoonist Studio Prize, 2014 for Sunny Japan Media Arts Festival, 2016 for Sunny Shogakukan Manga Award, 2016 for Sunny Eisner Awards, 2020 for Cats of the Louvre |
Taiyō Matsumoto (Japanese: 松本 大洋, Hepburn: Matsumoto Taiyō, born October 25, 1967) is a Japanese manga artist from Tokyo. He has won several awards, including the Shogakukan Manga Award, the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and Eisner Award. Ping Pong and Blue Spring have been adapted into live-action feature films. Animation studio Studio 4°C adapted Tekkonkinkreet into an animated feature film, it was released in Japan in late 2006, and both the anime and manga have been published in English. He is the cousin of Santa Inoue, another manga artist.
Career
Matsumoto originally wanted to be a soccer player, but changed to artist as an occupation instead. After his initial success in the Comic Open contest, he began touring France in 1986, an event that became a significant point in his career. The manga he produced covers a variety of topics, from sports to family comedies to science fiction epics.
In 1993, he began work on the Tekkonkinkreet manga, which became a success in the Big Spirits magazine, and published a series of short stories in a collection called Nihon no Kyodai that was publicized at the time by Comic Aré magazine. Ping Pong appeared in Big Spirits in 1996, soon followed by the series No. 5 in Shogakukan's Monthly Ikki magazine in 2000.
The Tekkonkinkreet anime was released in Japan in late 2006, and both the anime and manga have been published in English.
Influences
Matsumoto has cited Moebius, Enki Bilal, Katsuhiro Otomo, Shotaro Ishinomori and Tsuchida Seiki as influences on his work.
Works
Title | Year | Notes | Refs |
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Straight (ストレート) | 1989 | Morning, Kodansha Comics, 2 volumes | |
Zero | 1990–91 | Big Comic Spirits, 2 volumes | |
Chaoanfanteriburu (チャオアンファンテリブル, Chao Anne fan Terrible) Taiyo Matsumoto / Katsuki Tanaka / Hiro Sugiyama |
1992 | Tokyo Comic Insider, 1 volume | |
Hanaotoko (花男, A Boy Meet a Papa and Baseball) | 1992 | Big Comics, Big Spirits Comics Special, 3 volumes | |
Blue Spring | 1993 | Anthology collection of short stories Published by Shogakukan, 1 volume |
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Tekkonkinkreet (鉄コン筋クリート, Tekkonkinkurīto)/Black & White | 1993–94 | Serialized in Big Comic Spirits Published by Shogakukan, 3 volumes |
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Nihon no Kyōdai (日本の兄弟, Brothers of Japan) | 1995 | Mag Comics, 1 volume | |
100 | 1995 | Big spirits comic special, 2 volumes | |
Ping Pong | 1996–97 | Serialized in Big Comic Spirits Published by Shogakukan, 5 volumes |
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GoGo Monster | 2000 | Published by Shogakukan, 1 volume | |
No. 5 | 2000–05 | Serialized in Monthly Ikki magazine Published by Shogakukan in 8 volumes |
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Hana (花, Flower) | 2002 | stage play adapted to manga novella, 1 volume | |
Takemitsuzamurai (竹光侍) with Issei Eifuku (writer) |
2006–10 | Serialized in Big Comic Spirits Published by Shogakukan, 8 volumes |
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Sunny | 2010–15 | Serialized in Monthly Ikki and Monthly Big Comic Spirits Published by Shogakukan, 6 volumes |
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Cats of the Louvre (ルーヴルの猫, Rūvuru no Neko) | 2016–17 | Issued by the Louvre museum, 2 volumes | |
Tokyo Higoro (東京ヒゴロ) | 2019–present | Serialized in Big Comic Original Zōkan | |
Mukashi no Hanashi (むかしのはなし) with Issei Eifuku (writer) |
2020–present | Serialized in Big Comic Superior magazine |