Daisuke Igarashi started drawing, because he wanted to depict the beauty of these trees.
15 Facts About Daisuke Igarashi
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Daisuke Igarashi graduated from Tama Art University, where he studied oil painting from 1989 on.
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Daisuke Igarashi was classmates with fellow manga artist Hiroaki Samura, but the two of them only properly met later while working for the same manga magazine.
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In 1993, Daisuke Igarashi won the newcomer award Afternoon Shiki Sho of the manga magazine Afternoon with the short story "Ohayashi ga kikoeru hi" and its publication in the February 1994 issue of Afternoon was his debut as a professional manga artist.
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Daisuke Igarashi had previously submitted the manga to the shojo manga magazine LaLa, but the magazine's editors rejected it due to its lack of romance in the story and advised Igarashi to submit it to a seinen manga magazine.
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Daisuke Igarashi focused on a series consisting of short stories in order to still experiment with styles and themes in the beginning of his career.
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Daisuke Igarashi made a name for himself with the series Little Forest, which he published in Afternoon from 2002 until 2005 and which was based on his own experiences of living an autark life.
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Daisuke Igarashi lived for three years in the countryside of Iwate Prefecture, where he was working in rice fields, and his editors approached him about making a manga series about his life.
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Daisuke Igarashi drew smaller work for publishers other than Kodansha and Shogakukan.
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Daisuke Igarashi returned to working for Kodansha in 2015, publishing the series Designs in Afternoon until 2019.
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Daisuke Igarashi aims to show the beauty of different aspects of nature in his work.
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Daisuke Igarashi is known for drawing plants and animals with a lot of realism as well as for his "maximalist" spreads showing panoramic landscape views.
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Daisuke Igarashi has claimed that he is much less interested in depicting humans than nature.
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Daisuke Igarashi's style has earned comparisons to the films of Hayao Miyazaki.
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Daisuke Igarashi's work has received praise from other manga artists like Taiyo Matsumoto, Hiroaki Samura and Naoki Urasawa.