Amano Akira

[Ann-chan]

Post anything Amano here! wether it's photo's, interviews, other works (not that I know of any xD) or whatever, as long as it relates to Amano :>

Small Biography, translated from French by amberrune on LJ:

Name: Akira Amano
Actual name: 天野明
Nationality: Japanese
Age: 35 ans
Status: active
Debut: 1998

Biography: Akira Amano is the author and mangaka of the shonen manga Katekyo Hitman Reborn! She was born in 1973, but the month and day are unknown.

Career: Amano began in 1998 with a job at Weekly Young Magazine. She also held a job at Shueisha Publishing Co, Ltd.
In 2002, Amano participated in a contest for aspiring mangaka and was one of the lucky winners, with her comic Monkey Business published in Young Magazine.
In 2004, she finally found success with the humourous and classy manga Katekyo Hitman Reborn! (or, for short, just Reborn!), and that thanks to her readers' support. This new manga was advertised more and more in Shonen Jump and became a hit. Two years later, her manga was made into an anime series by Artland studios.

Her ideas for Reborn!: Amano had some crazy ideas to entertain readers with. She came up with weird characters to add spice to the humour, a story written especially to be unique, and fast-paced action.

Other works:
Boy Spin (1998)
Hot Blast Baseball Legendary (1999)
Pu Chipu Chirabii (2000)
Monkey Business (2002)
Tapir Hearts HAWK! (2003)
Katekyo Hitman Reborn! (2004)

Colleagues:
Ken Osamu Sakaki
KAITO
Main pine of indigo
Kobayashi
Kasuga truth

a picture that is supposedly Amano-sensei xD:


http://www.nautiljon.com/images/people/akira_amano.jpg


I have some translations of some questions asked on a radio interview last year October here on LJ:

part 1 (http://community.livejournal.com/hitman_reborn/469514.html#cutid1)
part 2 (http://community.livejournal.com/hitman_reborn/476300.html#cutid1)
part 3 (http://community.livejournal.com/hitman_reborn/480025.html#cutid1)
part 4 (http://community.livejournal.com/hitman_reborn/495266.html#cutid1)
part 5 (http://community.livejournal.com/hitman_reborn/522835.html#cutid1)
part 6 (http://community.livejournal.com/hitman_reborn/585001.html#cutid1)

They give us some vague info but it makes for nice speculation haha <3 discuss here about what you think of it and what kind of impression Amano makes on you :> what kind of questions would you ask Amano if you could? (I know you all want to discuss the yaoi questions, but please keep those to the respective FC's as much as you can xD)

[spacecat]

Thanks for sharing those Ann, Yan sent me a pic that was meant to be her once but we aren't sure it was lol

[Ann-chan]

yeh I have that pic too I think it also came off the LJ comm xD I added it in the first post along with a small biography from that same post haha

[spacecat]

Those questions were so lol, they focused mostly on Yaoi after the first one ahaha It sure was fun to read though xD

[Ann-chan]

yeh it's a fun read <3 I wish Amano would do more interviews hehe I want to know more <3 and like was said on those pages, after the first yaoi question was answered, the telephone lines were swarmed with fangirls calling in lawl noone with normal questions could get through anymore xD

[Ann-chan]

fun fact: according to kirimi from MH, Amano wrote this in the comments section last week:

"Kubo-sensei took me out for a meal! It was really yummy and I had a good time! Thank you!"

how funny is that :lmao guess our forum (Bleach + Reborn) is canon now :p

[Dizzy]

Lol, that's what a couple of us had been talking about before, that it was the reason for all the Haya plotkai XD

Kubo: I can't wait to see Haya win this fight.
Amano: Well actually, Haya isn't good enough to beat Gamma. Even his Sistema C.A.I is no match for Gamma's trump card.
Kubo: What? Did you think any of my captains should have won their battles? Amano-san, let me introduce you to the amazing shounen writing technique I call plotkai.
Amano: *sparkly eyes*
Kubo: Also, neither of them can have the advantage for more than one chapter. Union rules and all that.
Amano: *furiously taking down notes*
Kubo: Now first, let's get that cat bouncing into Ryohei's kangaroo's pouch ...

[Ann-chan]

^LOL yeh I bet it went like that xD

[Primera Espada]

XD

So any word on why her name is a man's name?

I heard it was a fake name used cause she wanted to get published for boy comics (shonen jump afterall) and that she wouldn't be taken seriously if people immediately thought she was a woman.

[spacecat]

Yeah me and Yan basically said what Dizzy wrote in irc lol Kubo "nevermind, ppl will just say...it's shounen...kufufufu do what you want." ;)

PE: No idea @@

[Kinlyu]

@Primera Espada: probably. Women still get less (instant) respect and stuff, and they are immediately judged differently because of their gender. I mean, even JK Rowling preferred to be genderanonymous :3

[Ann-chan]

^yeh probably. I've hear Akira a few times before as a woman's name too though so who knows~ in Japanese there's lots of non-gender names xD even though they might sound one way or another >__>; I always thought names like Kaoru and Yuuki were woman's names too but I've heard them for men so many times now ^^;

[Flying Banana]

she has a favorite yaoi pairing and she might tell us at the end of the series???? :zomg :wha :lala :fangirl :noes when she says tells i hope she means shows xD
i soo hope it's 8059 :wtf
:lmao

Amano draws hot guys :fu

[rayne_himura]

Meh, it's hard to choose just one pairing :devestated

[xtremedark]

It's really funny how most questions are shonen ai questions.
She (or he....whateva) is awesome though.
artwise and storywise.
she seems really nice too....

[Bleu]

me and amano akira will be married one day :wha


does anyone have any of her recent interviews?