Yuhki Kamatani: Difference between revisions

Kamatani's debut work, ''Nabari no Ou'', was a "modern ninja manga"<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-07-08/nabari-no-ou-manga-to-end-in-14th-volume-in-japan|title=Nabari no Ou Manga to End in 14th Volume in Japan|last=Loo|first=Egan|date=July 8, 2010|website=Anime News Network|access-date=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209100926/https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-07-08/nabari-no-ou-manga-to-end-in-14th-volume-in-japan|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> about a seemingly ordinary teenage boy whose body contains an omnipotent ninja power that hidden ninja clans battle to claim.<ref name=":1" /> It was a finalist under the Story Manga division in the ninth Japan Media Arts Festival in 2005 and was ultimately recommended by the committee.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/festival/2005/recommend/magazine.php|title=2005 9th Japan Media Arts Festival|accessdate=June 1, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080403234518/http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/festival/2005/recommend/magazine.php|archive-date=April 3, 2008|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> The first volume of an English translation of the manga was released in May 2009 by Yen Press.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://yenpress.us/?page_id=450|title=Nabari no Ou|publisher=Yen Press|accessdate=June 1, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422021409/http://yenpress.us/?page_id=450|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> The 14th and final volume was published in Japan in 2011<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4757531346/|title=隠の王(14)|website=Amazon.com|accessdate=May 8, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809060244/https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4757531346/|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> and in the United States in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.b2c.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/none/nabari-no-ou-vol-14/9780316204866/?yen|title=Nabari No Ou, Vol. 14|publisher=Hachette Book Group|accessdate=May 8, 2018|archive-url=False|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Kamatani worked with J.C.Staff to create a 26-episode anime adaptation of ''Nabari no Ou''. Directed by Kunihisa Sugishima, the series aired in Japan on TV Tokyo in 2008.