Tsukumizu

Tsukumizu (つくみず) is a pseudonymous Japanese mangaka.

Tsukumizu
つくみず
CitizenshipJapanese
Alma materAichi University of Education
OccupationMangaka
Notable work
Girls' Last Tour
Shimeji Simulation
AwardsSeiun Award
Websitetwitter.com/tkmiz
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They are notable for having penned the post-apocalyptic iyashikei manga, Girls' Last Tour, and the four-panel surreal comedy manga, Shimeji Simulation.

Biography

Tsukumizu had been reading extensively since they were in primary school, and read novels all through upper secondary. They cite 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, they started to become interested in anime, and began drawing moe in their 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, they only saw drawing manga as a hobby.[2][3]

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.[4]

In 2013, they published a Touhou Project dōjinshi, Flan Wants to Die, about an immortal yōkai named Flan who longs to die.[5]

In their second year of post-secondary, Tsukumizu began drawing manga and was invited to a manga circle by a friend. They regularly uploaded their work on the Internet, and this caught the eye of someone at the publishing company Shinchosha. Their first commercially published work was Girls' Last Tour,[6] which was adapted into an anime in 2017.

Their next major series, Shimeji Simulation, started to be serialized in Media Factory's Comic Cune magazine on January 26, 2019.[7]

Works

References
  1. "どう生きるべきか 『少女終末旅行』つくみずは問い掛ける (1/2)". ITmedia eBook USER (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-04-25.
  2. 愛知教育大学生協 (2014-11-11). "【愛教大卒業生著作の新刊コミック】愛教大のOB、つくみず先生著作のコミック『少女終末旅行①』をeMで販売中です！終末の世界で生きる2人の少女…の、ほのぼの日常系マンガです★試し読みもあります、ぜひお手に取ってみてください!!pic.twitter.com/jBaIL48RjN". @aichieducoop (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-04-25.
  3. "どう生きるべきか 『少女終末旅行』つくみずは問い掛ける (1/2)". ITmedia Mobile (in Japanese). 2015-07-24. Retrieved 2020-04-25.
  4. "少女終末旅行 アニメ通信 vol.03 | くらげバンチ". 2018-05-02. Archived from the original on 2018-05-02. Retrieved 2020-04-25.
  5. MangaDex. "Flan Wants to Die (Title)". MangaDex. Retrieved 2020-06-01.
  6. "どう生きるべきか 『少女終末旅行』つくみずは問い掛ける (1/2)". ITmedia eBook USER (in Japanese). Retrieved 2020-04-25.
  7. Parker-Dalton, Jacob (2018-12-27). "Girls' Last Tour Creator Launches New Manga 'Shimeji Simulation' Next Month". OTAQUEST. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
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