Yuki Kodama

Yuki Kodama (Japanese: 小玉 ユキ, Hepburn: Kodama Yuki) is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known as the creator of the manga series Kids on the Slope, for which she won a Shogakukan Manga Award in 2011.

Yuki Kodama
BornSeptember 26
NationalityJapanese
Known forManga artist
AwardsShogakukan Manga Award

Biography

Kodama was born on September 26 in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.[1] She made her debut as a manga artist in 2000, with her series Zakuro (柘榴) published in Cutie Comic, a manga magazine published by Takarajimasha.[2] Kodama would go on to publish several short-form works in Cutie Comic and Vanilla, a manga magazine published by Kodansha, in the early- to mid-2000s.[3]

Kodama is best known for her manga series Kids on the Slope, which was serialized in the manga magazine Monthly Flowers from 2007 to 2012.[4] The series, which Kodama based on her own experience growing up in Sasebo, was the top-ranked manga for women in the 2009 edition of Takarajimasha's annual Kono Manga ga Sugoi! rankings[5] and won the 57th Shogakukan Manga Award in 2012 for general manga.[6] In 2012, Kids on the Slope was adapted into a television anime series by director Shinichirō Watanabe.[4]

Following Kids on the Slope, Kodama's wrote the manga series Tsukikage Baby, a drama focused on events in a traditional Japanese town from the perspectives of several different families. The series, which was published from 2013 to 2017 in Monthly Flowers;[7][8] was one of the top ranked manga for women in the 2014 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! rankings.[9] Her next series Chiisako no Niwa, also published in Monthly Flowers, ran from 2017 to 2018,[10][11] and placed eighth in the 2019 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! rankings.[12] Her most recent work, Ao no Hana, Utsuwa no Mori, has been published in Monthly Flowers since 2018.[13]

Works

Ongoing series
  • Hagoromo Mishin (published in Monthly Flowers, 2007)[14]
  • Kids on the Slope (published in Monthly Flowers, 2007 – 2012)[4]
  • Tsukikage Baby (published in Monthly Flowers, 2013 – 2017)[7][8]
  • Chiisako no Niwa (published in Monthly Flowers, 2017 – 2018)[10][11]
  • Ao no Hana, Utsuwa no Mori (published in Monthly Flowers, 2018 – present)[13]

One-Shots

Awards
Year Nominated work CategoryAward ResultNotesRef.
2009 Kids on the Slope Female Readers Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Won [5]
2011 Kids on the Slope General Shogakukan Manga Award Won [6]
2014 Tsukikage Baby Female Readers Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Third Place [9]
2019 Chiisako no Niwa Female Readers Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Eighth Place [12]

References
  1. 佐世保が舞台の漫画: 坂道のアポロ (PDF) (in Japanese). Sasebo Department of Tourism. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 16, 2021. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  2. "Comments". Kids on the Slope Official Website. FujiTV. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  3. "Kodama Yuki". Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  4. Hodgkins, Crystalyn (January 30, 2012). "Sakamichi no Apollon Manga Gets Spinoff Series in March". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 27, 2020.
  5. "Kids on the Slope". Toho. Archived from the original on January 1, 2021. Retrieved May 23, 2020.
  6. Loo, Egan (January 23, 2012). "Inazuma Eleven, Apollon Win Shogakukan Manga Awards". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  7. Loveridge, Lynzee (October 24, 2012). "Kids on the Slope's Kodama Launches Tsukikage Baby Manga". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  8. Mateo, Alex (December 10, 2016). "Kids on the Slope's Kodama Ends Tsukikage Baby Manga in 9th Volume". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  9. Nelkin, Sarah (December 9, 2013). "Top Manga Ranked by Kono Manga ga Sugoi 2014 Voters". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  10. Hodgkins, Crystalyn (May 28, 2017). "Shogakukan Reveals Details For Yuki Kodama's New Manga Series". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  11. Pineda, Rafael Antonio (November 28, 2017). "Kids on the Slope's Yuki Kodama Ends Chiisako no Niwa Manga Before New Series in March". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  12. Pineda, Rafael Antonio (December 10, 2018). "Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Reveals 2019's Series Ranking for Female Readers". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  13. Pineda, Rafael Antonio (March 1, 2018). "Shogakukan Reveals Visual, Title for Yuki Kodama's New Manga". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  14. "羽衣ミシン". Shogakukan (in Japanese). Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  15. Loo, Egan (September 7, 2013). "Kids on the Slope's Kodama Draws 'Hōsekibako no Ningyo' 1-Shot Manga". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
  16. Loo, Egan (February 22, 2014). "Kids on the Slope's Kodama Draws 'Underground' Manga One-Shot". Anime News Network. Retrieved May 30, 2020.
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