Hajime isayama biography template
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Hajime Isayama (諫山 創, Isayama Hajime, born August 29, 1986) is a Japanese manga artist. His first and currently ongoing series, Attack on Titan, has become one of the best selling manga series of all time with 88 million copies in circulation in December 2018.[2][3]
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Isayama was born in Ōyama, Ōita Prefecture, Japan, which is now part of Hita. It was in high school, Hita Rinko Senior High School, that he began submitting manga works to contests.[4] After graduating, he matriculated in the manga design program of the arts department at Kyushu Designer Gakuen. In 2006, he applied for the Magazine Grand Prix known as MGP promoted by Kodansha Ltd. and a short version of Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) was given the "Fine Work" award.[5] At age twenty, he moved to Tokyo and worked at an Internet café in order to pursue a career in manga.[4][6] This one-shot would later be included in the series' guide
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Discovering the Mystery: Who Wrote Attack on Titan?
Attack on Titan has experienced unprecedented global success as an anime and manga franchise since it debuted. Behind its success stands Hajime Isayama’s brilliant mind, creator of Attack on Titan! Born August 29, 1986, in Oyama, Japan, he lived a relatively normal rural childhood before discovering storytelling through manga comic books as his passion.
Hajime Isayama first became interested in manga at age 10, after first picking up one of the volumes to read at his library. Inspired by both stories and artwork found therein, young Isayama quickly decided he wanted a career as an illustrator of these comic-book-esque drawings, and later attended Kyushu Designer Gakuin vocational school’s Manga Design Department where they teach the necessary techniques in manga creation for professional success.
After several minor works and much perseverance, Isayama finally struck gold with his groundbreaking series Attack on Ti
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A Show That Pits Japan Against the World Brings a Dark Past to Life
“Attack on Titan,” which started out as a successful manga in 2009 before being adapted into an even more successful anime in 2013, is heading into its divisive conclusion later this year. With this, it is perhaps time to reexamine the relationship between Japanese politics and pop culture.
The anime series, which came after the comic-book manga version, follows a boy named Eren Yeager, who was born in a medieval society surrounded by enormous walls that keep out naked, mindless, people-eating giants called Titans. When these monsters breach Eren’s world and kill his mother, a vengeful Eren joins the army to launch a counteroffensive. Venturing beyond the walls, he discovers that Titans are actually humans who have been turned into Titans by a technologically advanced nation-state called Marley.
It also turns out that Eren’s people — the Eldians — used to control Marley, until their king, exhausted by war, built