Fumi Yoshinaga

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Fumi Yoshinaga (よしながふみ YOSHINAGA Fumi, born 1971 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese mangaka, known for her shōjo and boys' love works. She debuted in 1994 with Tsuki to sandaru, serialized in Hanaoto magazine. Of Yoshinaga's many works, several have been licensed for release in the US, the most recent, official license being Garden Dreams, picked up by DMP in 2007.

1 List of Works
2 Illustration Credits
3 US License List
4 Awards
5 Trivia
6 External links

[edit] List of Works

[list format: Japanese romaji title (Japanese title/title translation; English title)]

Tsuki to sandaru (月とサンダル/Moon and Sandals; The Moon and the Sandals)
Hontou ni, yasashii (本当に、やさしい。/Truly Kind; Truly Kindly)
Ichigenme wa yaruki no minpou (1限めはやる気の民法; The First Class Is Civil Law)
Solfege (ソルフェージュ)
Kodomo no taion (こどもの体温/A Child's Temperature)
Ai towa yoru ni kidzuku mono (愛とは夜に気付くもの/Love Is Something You Notice at Night; Lovers in the Night)
Kare wa hanazono de yume wo miru (彼は花園で夢を見る/He Dreams in the Flower Garden; Garden Dreams)
Gerard to Jacques (ジェラールとジャック; Gerard and Jacques)
Seiyou kotto yougashiten (西洋骨董洋菓子店/Antique Bakery)
Aisubeki musumetachi (愛すべき娘たち/All My Darling Daughters)
Sore wo ittara oshimai yo (それを言ったらおしまいよ/If You Say That, It's Over; Don't Say Anymore Darling)
Flower of Life (フラワー・オブ・ライフ)
Ai ga nakutemo kutteyukemasu (愛がなくても喰ってゆけます)
Ōoku (大奥/The Shogun's Harem)
Shitsuji no bunzai (執事の分際/A Butler's Place)
Kinou nani tabeta? (きのう何食べた？/What Did You Eat Yesterday?)

[edit] Illustration Credits

(Boys' Love novels)

Garasuzaiku tenshi (硝子細工の天使)
Kono ame ga yuki ni kawaru made (この雨が雪にかわるまで)
Babylove (ベイビィラヴ)
Position (ポジション)
Innocent Sky (イノセント・スカイ)
Saginuma yakkyoku de... (サギヌマ薬局で…)
Second Messenger (セカンドメッセンジャー)
Hanayakana meikyuu 1-4 (華やかな迷宮)
Itsutsu no oto (五つの音)
Kamakura saryou koimonogatari (鎌倉茶寮恋物語)
Usotsuki no koi (嘘ツキの恋)

(Miscellaneous)

Manga wa ima dou natteorunoka (マンガは今どうなっておるのか) – A book about the state of manga today by famed manga scholar, NATSUME Fusanosuke
Kore ga watashitachi no DVD best selection 70 (これがワタシたちのDVDベストセレクション70) – Mag-Garden
Motto! Kore ga watashitachi no DVD best selection 70 (もっと！これがワタシたちのDVDベストセレクション70) – Mag-Garden
Unmeironsha Jyakku to sono aruji (運命論者ジャックとその主人) – new Japanese edition of Denis Diderot's Jacques le fataliste et son maître (aka. Jacques the Fatalist and his Master)

[edit] US License List

[license announcement date: US title (Japanese title), US publisher]

October 2004: Antique Bakery (Seiyou kotto yougashiten), Digital Manga Publishing
February 2006: Gerard and Jacques (Gerard to Jacques; Gerard et Jacques), BLU Manga
July 2006: Solfege, Digital Manga Publishing
July 2006: Moon and Sandals (Tsuki to sandaru), Digital Manga Publishing
August 2006: Flower of Life, Digital Manga Publishing
October 2006: Ichigenme... The First Class is Civil Law (Ichigenme wa yaruki no minpou), 801 Media, Inc.
December 2006 (confirmed during the New York Comic Con '07): Lovers in the Night (Ai towa yoru ni kidzuku mono), BLU Manga
December 2006 (confirmed during the New York Comic Con '07): Truly Kindly (Hontou ni, yasashii), BLU Manga
February 2007: Don't Say Anymore Darling (Sore wo ittara oshimaiyo), Juné
March 2007: Garden Dreams (Kare wa hanazono de yume wo miru), Digital Manga Publishing

[edit] Awards

Ōoku (大奥) won an Excellence Award as a Grand Prize finalist for the 10th Annual Japan Media Arts Festival in December 2006.
Ōoku (大奥) won a special prize at The Japanese Association of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy's fifth annual Sense of Gender awards in 2005.
Antique Bakery (西洋骨董洋菓子店) was the winner of the 26th annual Kōdansha manga shō (講談社漫画賞), aka. Kodansha Manga Award, in the shōjo manga category for 2002.

[edit] Trivia

Although she publishes original doujinshi on a regular basis, Yoshinaga has drawn fan parodies of Slam Dunk (スラムダンク), Rose of Versailles (ベルサイユのばら), and Legend of Galactic Heroes (銀河英雄伝説).

Yoshinaga was selected and exhibited as one of the "Twenty Major Mangaka Who Contributed to the World of Shojo Manga (World War II to Present)" for Professor Masami Toku's exhibition, "Shojo Manga: Girl Power!" at CSU-Chico.