Template:Short description Template:Unreliable sources Yoshihisa Tagami (Template:Lang Tagami Yoshihisa, usually written in hiragana Template:Lang) is a Japanese manga artist.
Tagami was born on December 9, 1958, in Komoro, Nagano.[1] He was the older brother of another manga artist, Iku Oyamada, who died in 2016.[2] In 1978, Tagami received an Honorable Mention of the Shogakukan Manga Award in the Newcomer category for his manga Zashikiwarashi, which would become his first published manga in the January 10, 1979 issue of Shogakukan's Big Comic magazine.[1]
Early manga
Tagami's first manga published as a professional manga artist include Karuizawa Syndrome (Template:Lang), which ran in Big Comic Spirits from 1980 to 1985,[3] and My Name is Wolf (Template:Lang, indicated by furigana to be read as Template:Notatypo), serialised in Play Comic by Akita Shoten in 1983.[4]
Grey
Template:Main Grey is a science fiction manga in a post-apocalyptic, dystopian setting. It was originally serialised in Monthly Shōnen Captain from January 1985 - December 1986.[5] Thanks to its early translation into English (Viz 1988–1989), Grey is Tagami's best known manga abroad.
Horobi
Template:Lang (Horobi, literally "day of ruin"), originally serialised in Shōnen Captain from 1987 to 1990,[6] was also published by Viz in English from 1990 to 1991.[7][8] It is an occult horror story set in present-day Japan in which two university assistants face supernatural creatures and sinister cults.[9] Horobi has been described as more sophisticated and mature than Grey.[9]
Frontier Line
Frontier Line (Template:Lang), originally published by Gakken in Comic Nora magazine from 1987 to 1988, was the third of Tagami's manga to be published in English, by Central Park Media in seven issues from 1999 to 2000.[10] Each of the six chapters contains a mecha science-fiction story.[11]
Later manga
Tagami continues to make manga to this day. His more recent works include the martial arts story Fighter (Template:Lang), the mecha manga Metal Hunters D (Template:Lang), and the Western Pepper (Template:Lang). Tagami also contributed to the Black Jack tribute manga Black Jack Alive (Template:Lang).[12]
Anime
Two of Tagami's manga have been adapted into anime films: Grey: Digital Target (1986) and Karuizawa Syndrome (1986). Tagami was also character designer on another anime, Chō Kōsoku Galvion, a series aired in 1984.[13]