Yuji Terajima
Encyclopedia
is a Japanese
manga artist
, born in Mannō, Kagawa
. He is the writer and illustrator of the baseball manga, Daiya no Ace which won the 2008 Shogakukan Manga Award
in the Shōnen
category.
Previously, he worked as an assistant under Rando Ayamine
on the manga serial
Get Backers along with fellow assistant Atsushi Okubo
, who later authored Soul Eater
.
Japanese people
The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...
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 in Mannō, Kagawa
Manno, Kagawa
is a town located in Nakatado District, Kagawa, Japan.As of September 2011, the town has an estimated population of 19,933. The total area is 194.33 km²....
. He is the writer and illustrator of the baseball manga, Daiya no Ace which won the 2008 Shogakukan Manga Award
Shogakukan Manga Award
The is one of Japan's major manga awards, sponsored by Shogakukan Publishing. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga since 1955 and features candidates from a number of publishers.The current award categories are:...
in the Shōnen
Shonen
The term refers to manga marketed to a male audience aged roughly 10 and up. The Kanji characters literally mean "few" and "year", respectively, where the characters generally mean "comic"...
category.
Previously, he worked as an assistant under Rando Ayamine
Rando Ayamine
is a Japanese manga artist known illustrating the GetBackers series. Since the completion of Get Backers, he has been working on a new manga series called Holy Talker....
on the manga serial
Serial (literature)
In literature, a serial is a publishing format by which a single large work, most often a work of narrative fiction, is presented in contiguous installments—also known as numbers, parts, or fascicles—either issued as separate publications or appearing in sequential issues of a single periodical...
Get Backers along with fellow assistant Atsushi Okubo
Atsushi Okubo
, also romanized as Atsushi Ohkubo, is a Japanese manga author and fantasy artist known for his work on the manga series Soul Eater, which has been adapted into an anime. Okubo worked as an assistant under Rando Ayamine, on the manga series Get Backers...
, who later authored Soul Eater
Soul Eater (manga)
is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Atsushi Ōkubo. Set at the "Death Weapon Meister Academy," the series revolves around three teams consisting of a weapon meister and human weapon...
.