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Shin-ichi Sakamoto

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For the tennis player, see Shinichi Sakamoto.

Shin-ichi Sakamoto
Born (1972-07-19) July 19, 1972 (age 51)[1]
Osaka Prefecture, Japan[1]
NationalityJapanese
OccupationManga artist
Years active1990–present
Notable workKokou no Hito, Innocent

Shin-ichi Sakamoto (Japanese: 坂本眞一, Hepburn: Sakamoto Shin-ichi, born July 19, 1972) is a Japanese manga artist known for his seinen manga series Kokou no Hito and the Innocent duology. Both Kokou no Hito and Innocent were awarded an Excellence Award at the Japan Media Arts Festival.[2][3] His newest series #DRCL midnight children began serialization in Grand Jump in 2021.[4]

Life and career

Shin-ichi Sakamoto was born in Osaka Prefecture in 1972 as the middle child of three brothers.[5] He loved drawing and even won some contests as a child. However, he did not read manga until he found a copy of Weekly Shōnen Jump in a parking lot and saw Fist of the North Star and then Kinnikuman.[5] Falling in love with manga, he decided to become a manga artist in high school. He made his debut in 1990 at the age of 18 with the one-shot "Keith!!", which won a contest.[5] He began his first serialization in 1995, but Sakamoto himself said he spent the next 10 years without doing "anything of importance".[5] This changed in 2007, when he created Kokou no Hito based on the novel of the same name. Sakamoto said that previously, he only focused on imagery and stories he thought would sell well. But with Kokou no Hito, he put his self, lifestyle, and thought process into his work.[5]

Style

Sakamoto is a self-taught artist. Tetsuo Hara, the illustrator of Fist of the North Star, had a huge influence on him.[5] Sakamoto's early art style focused on muscles and was paired with stories focused on men fighting.[5] He solidified his current style with Kokou no Hito, which he called a big turning point for himself.[5] The artist said that as a novel, the original work uses metaphors to create imagery, and he decided to show these in his manga adaptation. Examples of his symbolic imagery style include letters of the text in Kokou no Hito being mirrored to convey a character's panic from losing oxygen, and public outcry from a public execution in Innocent Rouge being depicted as a tsunami.[5] Sakamoto said he does not plan these in advance and, because his career struggled for so long, he will go with them as long as he finds it interesting because he is ready for his career to end at any moment.[5] He went digital around 2012, citing the possibility of the paper he used being discontinued or his favorite pen stopping working like it used to as the reasons.[5] Sakamoto is known for his detailed and realistic images.[5] When Naoki Urasawa suggested that his work is known for the characters' lips, the artist explained that he draws them as if they are interior organs.[5]

After drawing the names on paper, Sakamoto's manga is created completely digitally. The artist takes photographs of his assistants modeling clothing and costumes, some of which he sews himself, in poses that he wants the characters in.[5] He draws using an LCD tablet and has multiple layers to an image that he can add or remove at will; a background created by an assistant, a pre-made outline of the character, a photo of his assistant posing that is cropped and resized to fit the character outline, and a draft he draws on top.[5] Drawing with his right hand, Sakamoto uses a remote in his left to move, rotate or flip images. After finishing the draft, he "inks" the final version using the G Pen setting because it is the thinnest. Sakamoto can not only immediately undo a line he does not like, but can select a specific part of the image, such as an eye, and reposition it. He cited this as one of the reasons he can not go back to traditional ink on paper.[5] The clothes and hair of characters are kept on their own layers. Sakamoto meticulously traces the details of clothing from the photos he takes, and has a digital library of over 2,000 hairstyles he created that he picks pieces from.[5]

Works

Manga

  • Bloody Soldier (ブラッディ・ソルジャー) (1995)
  • Mortal Commando Guy (モートゥル・コマンドーGUY) (1995)
  • Niragi Kioumaru (にらぎ鬼王丸) (April 19, 2004 – November 18, 2005)
  • Masuraou (益荒王) (2005 – 2006)
  • Kokou no Hito (孤高の人, lit. Lonely Person) (2007 – 2012)
  • Innocent (イノサン) (January 31, 2013 – April 16, 2015)
  • Innocent Rouge (イノサン ルージュ) (May 20, 2015 – January 8, 2020)
  • #DRCL midnight children (January 20, 2021 – present)

Other

  • Innocent Bleu (イノサン ブルー) (2020, Artbook)
  • Dorachuu (どらちゅう) (2020, one-shot doujinshi)
  • Devil's Door (デベルズドア) (2021, Cover art)

Awards

References

  1. ^ a b "坂本眞一の一覧". BookLive [ja] (in Japanese). Retrieved August 9, 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, On-Gaku, March comes in like a lion Win Media Arts Awards". Anime News Network. Retrieved July 18, 2021.
  3. ^ a b "2010 [14th] Japan Media Arts Festival | List of Award-winning Works | Japan Media Arts Plaza". July 6, 2011. Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved July 18, 2021.
  4. ^ "グランドジャンプNo.4 大好評発売中！！坂本眞一新連載『#DRCL midnight children』表紙＆巻頭カラー！山下和美新連載第２回！｜集英社グランドジャンプ公式サイト". 集英社 グランドジャンプ[GRANDJUMP] 公式サイト (in Japanese). Retrieved July 18, 2021.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q "Shin-ichi Sakamoto". Urasawa Naoki no Manben Neo. Episode 8 (in Japanese). December 17, 2020. NHK Educational TV.
  6. ^ "Vainqueurs du prix Mangawa 2011, 07 April 2011". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved July 18, 2021.
  7. ^ "Jojolion Manga Wins Media Arts Award". Anime News Network. Retrieved July 18, 2021.
  8. ^ "18th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize 'Reader Award' Nominees Announced". Anime News Network. Retrieved July 18, 2021.
  9. ^ "8th Manga Taisho Awards Nominates 14 Titles". Anime News Network. Retrieved July 18, 2021.

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