Fumi Yoshinaga (よしながふみ YOSHINAGA Fumi, born 1971 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese shōjo and boys' love mangaka. 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 Ichigenme wa yaruki no minpou, which was announced as one of 801 Media, Inc.'s charter titles at YaoiCon '06. In December 2006, two unannounced licenses were publicized by The Fumi Yoshinaga Resource Index: Ai towa yoru ni kidzuku mono and Hontou ni, yasashii, with the licensor of these titles TK. Mangaka (漫画家) is the Japanese word for a comic artist. ...

List of Works

• Tsuki to sandaru (月とサンダル; Moon and Sandals)
• Hontou ni, yasashii (本当に、やさしい。)
• Ichigenme wa yaruki no minpou (1限めはやる気の民法)
• 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)
• Kare wa hanazono de yume wo miru (彼は花園で夢を見る; He Dreams in the Flower Garden)
• 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, Then It's the End)
• 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)

Ōoku (大奥)- Term used for the section of Edo Castle where the women connected to the reigning Shōgun resided. ...

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)

Portrait of Diderot by Louis-Michel van Loo, 1767 Denis Diderot (October 5, 1713 – July 31, 1784) was a French philosopher and writer. ... Jacques le fataliste et son maître (English title: Jacques the Fatalist and his Master) is a book written by Denis Diderot from the late 1760s to 1778 and published in 1796. ...

US License List

• 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: Lovers in the Night (Ai towa yoru ni kidzuku mono), licensor TK, Truly Kindly (Hontou ni, yasashii), licensor TK

Awards

• 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.

Antique Bakery is a manga by Fumi Yoshinaga depicting the lives of four men who work in a small bakery. ...

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.

This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... The Rose of Versailles (ベルサイユのばら Berusaiyu no bara), by Riyoko Ikeda, is one of the best-known titles in shōjo manga. ... Legend of the Galactic Heroes, known in Japan as Ginga Eiyū Densetsu (銀河英雄伝説) is an anime in the genres of space opera, science fiction, military (military science fiction/military space opera), action, drama, epic. ... This is the Wildcat; Chico States Mascot Chico State campus in the spring Chico State campus: Laxson Auditorium Chico State Administration Hall This shows the Chico State Motto, Today decides tomorrow California State University, Chico is the second-oldest campus in the California State University system, and home to...

External links

• The Fumi Yoshinaga Resource Index（Japanese fan site）
• Digital Manga Publishing (English licensor)
• BLU Manga（English licensor）
• Shojo Manga: Girl Power! (English exhibition site)
• Gender-SF 2005 SoG Awards: YOSHINAGA Fumi (Japanese)
• Let Them Eat Cake! The TAFL-approved YOSHINAGA Fumi fanlisting (English)