In February 2021, Gotouge was included as "Phenoms" in Time 's annual list of 100 Most Influential People, making them the first manga artist to receive the achievement. In the same year, Gotouge also won the award for best screenplay/original story at the Tokyo Anime Award Festival. Gotouge received the award due to the franchise's sales, which boosted the entire publishing industry from 2019 to 2020. In 2020, Gotouge received the 2nd Kodansha's Noma Publishing Culture Award, which honors those who have contributed to "reinventing publishing". Gotouge has mentioned Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto Tite Kubo's Bleach and Hideaki Sorachi's Gintama as influences on their work. In February 2021, Gotouge commented that their next project would be a science fiction romantic comedy story. It became a success, with over 150 million copies in circulation (including digital copies) as of February 2021, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. The series was published in Weekly Shōnen Jump from February 15, 2016, to May 18, 2020. Gotouge's debut work Kagarigari would serve as a basis for Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. Īfter Haeniwa no Zigzag failed to be a serialized series, Tatsuhiko Katayama (Gotouge's first editor) suggested to start a series with an "easy-to-understand theme". Three more one-shots followed: Monju Shirō Kyōdai ( 文殊史郎兄弟), published in Jump Next! in 2014 Rokkotsu-san ( 肋骨さん), published in Weekly Shōnen Jump in 2014 and Haeniwa no Zigzag ( 蠅庭のジグザグ), published in Weekly Shōnen Jump in 2015. In 2013, Gotouge debuted in the 70th Jump Treasure Newcomer Manga Awards with the one-shot work Kagarigari ( 過狩り狩り). The author uses a pen name to maintain anonymity.
Gotouge was born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, on May 5, 1989. Gotouge was included as "Phenoms" in Time 's annual list of 100 Most Influential People, becoming the first manga artist to receive the achievement. As of February 2021, the manga had over 150 million copies in circulation (including digital copies), making it the ninth best-selling manga series of all time. Koyoharu Gotouge ( Japanese: 吾峠 呼世晴, Hepburn: Gotōge Koyoharu, born May 5, 1989) is a Japanese manga artist, known for the manga series Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (2016–2020).
Japan Cartoonists Association Award (2021).
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