O-SHIMA Yumiko
OSHIMA Yumiko
Yumiko Ōshima
Юмико Осима
오시마 유미코

大島弓子

Ohtawara, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan

August 31, 1947

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August 6th 2021, 9:07pm

One of the 24-Gumi (Magnificent 49ers), the group of female manga artists that pioneered the shoujo demographic.

She made her debut in 1968 with Paula's Tears in Weekly Margaret. Her works have a very surreal feeling. Ooshima is said to be a very eccentric person.

Kutsuwada Chie is a fan of hers.

She received the 1978 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for The Star of Cottonland, and the 2008 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Short Story Award for Gū-gū datte Neko de aru. She is credited with popularizing the kemonomimi (catgirl) character type through her creation of Chibi-neko from The Star of Cottonland.

She approaches profound and disturbing issues in eccentric ways, fooling the reader into thinking she's reading a cute, nonsensical farce, then leaving her in tears.

In 1997, she was found to have ovarian cancer, had an operation and has recovered. She wrote about it in her later works.

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Shoujo(31)  Drama(16)  Psychological(16)  Romance(8)  Slice of Life(8)  Comedy(7)  Josei(6)  Fantasy(4)  School Life(4)  Supernatural(2)  Gender Bender(1)  Tragedy(1) 

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