is a Japanese manga artist

Mangaka

is the Japanese word for a comic artist or cartoonist. Outside of Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese...

 known for her manga series Ace o Nerae!

Ace o Nerae!

is a sports shōjo manga by Sumika Yamamoto begun in 1972 and serialized in Margaret. Hugely successful, it was adapted into a TV anime series in 1973 by Tokyo Movie Shinsha with the Madhouse animation studio , and was originally aired on MBS.Another TV anime, a movie retelling of the first series,...

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Biography

Sumika Yamamoto is a shōjo

Shojo

The term refers to manga marketed to a female audience roughly between the ages of 10-18. The name romanizes the Japanese 少女 , literally: "little female". Shōjo manga covers many subjects in a variety of narrative and graphic styles, from historical drama to science fiction — often with a strong...

 manga artist

Mangaka

is the Japanese word for a comic artist or cartoonist. Outside of Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese...

 born on June 17, 1949. She debuted as a manga artist in 1971 with "Sono Hitokoto ga ienakute" in Shuukan Margaret before achieving success with "Ace o Nerae". Since the mid-1980s she has disappeared from the manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 scene in order to cultivate spirituality.

Manga Works

• "Sono Hitokoto ga ienakute" ("Without saying that very single word")
• "Ace o Nerae!
  Ace o Nerae!
  is a sports shōjo manga by Sumika Yamamoto begun in 1972 and serialized in Margaret. Hugely successful, it was adapted into a TV anime series in 1973 by Tokyo Movie Shinsha with the Madhouse animation studio , and was originally aired on MBS.Another TV anime, a movie retelling of the first series,...
  
  " ("Aim for the ace!", Margaret 1972–1975, 1978–1980)
• "Kiss ni Goyoujin" ("With a kiss", Margaret, 1973)
• "Nanatsu no Eldorado" ("The seven Eldorados", Margaret, 1975–1977)
• "Hikkuri kaetta omocha bako" ("The toy that tumbled down", Margaret, 1978)
• "H2O! Zendai mimon!" ("H2O! Unprecedent!", Margaret, 1979)
• "Ai no Ogonritsu" ( Shogakukan Lady Comics, 1 volume, 1983)
• "Hakuran Seifuu" ("Cool breeze of knowledge", issues 15, 17 to 22 of Petit Flower
  Petit Flower
  was a Japanese manga magazine published by Shogakukan. Founded in 1980 as a quarterly magazine, in 1981 it changed to bimonthly, then monthly from 1984 to 1988, when it again became bimonthly. The magazine became defunct in May 2002, and was relaunched as Flowers in April 2004...
  
  1983 - 1984)
• "Hayami Daisuke Funsenki" ("The fighter Hayami Daisuke", issue 16 of Petit Flower, 2 volumes,1983)
• "Koi Shichaou kana?" ("Love alphabet?", Margaret, 1 volume)

External links

• Bio: Yamamoto, Sumika