Full Name 美水 かがみ Role Manga Author Nationality Japanese Movies Lucky Star OVA | Books Lucky★Star Name Kagami Yoshimizu | |
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Lucky Star volume 1 - Manga Review
Kagami Yoshimizu (美水 かがみ, Yoshimizu Kagami, born 1977) is a Japanese manga author from Satte, Saitama, Japan. He is perhaps best known as the creator of a four-panel comic strip Lucky Star which has been serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Comptiq magazine since January 2004. He is also credited for creating Comptiq's mascot character Comp-chan (コンプちゃん, Konpu-chan).
Contents
- Lucky Star volume 1 Manga Review
- Lucky Star Volume 1 Manga Review
- Biography
- Original illustration
- Manga
- Novel illustration
- References
Yoshimizu also works under the pen name Tsukasa Suina (水奈 つかさ, Suina Tsukasa).
Lucky Star-Volume 1 Manga Review
Biography
Yoshimizu was born 1977 in Satte, Saitama, Japan. He attended Kasukabe Kyōei Junior High & High School, a private academy in the city of Kasukabe, where he graduated as part of the 14th graduating class.
From the time he was in junior high school, Yoshimizu enjoyed drawing, and in high school he began drawing manga featuring his classmates. While a member of the animation club in high school, he began seriously drawing manga and doing illustration work. After graduating from high school, he began attending a technical school and working as a graphic artist and working toward becoming a manga artist.
Around that time, Yoshimizu met Gō Katō, who later became an editor—and then editor-in-chief—at Comptiq. Katō appears in the Lucky Star manga series as the rabbit "Editor K". After that, Yoshimizu got commission work to do spot illustrations and stories in anthology comic releases, in addition to doing original manga stories to fill out empty spots in the magazine when manga series completed.
One of the original series he created was Lucky Star, which became popular and was subsequently picked up as a regular series. Lucky Star currently runs in Comptiq.
There had been some confusion as to Yoshimizu's gender due to one of the main characters of Lucky Star—who is also named "Kagami"—being female, so Yoshimizu made it clear he was male in September 2007 at "Lucky Star Autumn Festival" Autograph session in Akihabara. While on a signing trip to Taiwan, he was proposed to by a male twice. In volume 6 of the manga he apologized, stating he likes females.