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Template:Nihongo is a pseudonymous Japanese manga artist. His notable works include the post-apocalyptic iyashikei manga Girls' Last Tour and the four-panel surreal comedy manga Shimeji Simulation.
Biography
Tsukumizu had been reading extensively since he was in primary school, and read novels all through upper secondary. He cites Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood and Dance Dance Dance, and Kaori Ekuni's Kirakira Hikaru as having influenced the themes behind Girls' Last Tour.[1]
In upper secondary, he started to become interested in anime, and began drawing moe in his third year. This interest would bloom to encompass manga as well. Tsukumizu attended the Aichi University of Education, and wished to study painting to become an art teacher. At that temporal juncture, he only saw drawing manga as a hobby.[2][1]
As a post-secondary student, Tsukumizu loved war movies, especially Saving Private Ryan. The Kettenkrad that appears in Girls' Last Tour is a homage to the movie.[3]
In 2013, he published a Touhou Project dōjinshi, Flan Wants to Die, about an immortal vampire named Flandre who longs to die.
In his second year of post-secondary, Tsukumizu began drawing manga and was invited to a manga circle by a friend. He regularly uploaded his work on the Internet, and this caught the eye of someone at the publishing company Shinchosha. His first commercially published work was Girls' Last Tour,[1] which was adapted into an anime in 2017.
His next major series, Shimeji Simulation, began serialization in Media Factory's Comic Cune magazine on 26 January 2019 and had its last chapter published in the same magazine on 27 November 2023.[4][5]
Works
- Flan Wants to Die (2013)
- Girls' Last Tour (2014–2018)
- Shimeji Simulation (2019–2023)