Masahito Soda
Appearance
Masahito Soda (曽田正人, Soda Masahito, born June 18, 1968, in Bunkyō, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist. Soda studied at Nihon University, but left prior to graduating. He worked as an assistant for Taku Kitazaki, and debuted in 1990 with GET ROCK, published in Magazine Special. His most notable series are Firefighter! Daigo of Fire Company M and Subaru.
In 1997 Soda won the Shogakukan Manga Award for Firefighter! Daigo of Fire Company M,[1] and in 2005 he won the Kodansha Manga Award for Capeta.[2]
Selected works
- Get Rock
- Shakariki! (シャカリキ!) (about cycling, made into a 2008 film starring Yuichi Nakamura)
- Firefighter! Daigo of Fire Company M - published in Shonen Sunday
- Subaru (昴) published in Big Comic Spirits
- Capeta
- Moon: Subaru Solitude Standing published in Big Comic Spirits
- The Tenth Prism[3] (テンプリズム) published in Big Comic Spirits
Art Books
- Masahito Soda's Collection Fire and Forget (曽田正人作品集 FIRE AND FORGET)
- SUBARU Masahito Soda Collection (SUBARU 曽田正人作画集)
- Capeta: The Guidebook
References
- ^ 小学館漫画賞:歴代受賞者 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on 2015-08-05. Retrieved 2007-08-19.
- ^ Joel Hahn. "Kodansha Manga Awards". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on 2007-08-16. Retrieved 2007-08-21.
- ^ Blair, Gavin J. (May 10, 2016). "Why Hollywood Is Mad About Manga, Despite 'Ghost in the Shell' Controversy". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on May 12, 2016. Retrieved May 20, 2016.
External links
- Masahito Soda's Home Page (in Japanese)
- Masahito Soda at Anime News Network's encyclopedia