Kenshi Hirokane

Kenshi Hirokane is a Japanese mangaka. Making use of his background as a salaried worker he has drawn works on the theme of the lives of various adults in modern society and their conflicts. His representative work the Kosaku Shima series was serialized for more than 30 years and became Hirokanes masterpiece. Others representative works include the Ningen Kousaten and Tasogare Ryuuseigun. He is the President of Hirokane Production Co. and a visiting professor at the Department of Human Communication Faculty of Welfare and Information Studies Tokuyama University. He graduated from Waseda University Faculty of Law. He belonged to a manga research group while at school. In elementary school he became a Osamu Tezukahttps://anilist.co/staff/96938/TezukaOsamu fan and aspired to become a manga artist. In the association with other university manga clubs he met Kaiji Kawaguchihttps://anilist.co/staff/97204/KawaguchiKaiji and Ryohei Saiganhttps://anilist.co/staff/106235/SaiganRyouhei After graduating he worked in the advertising department of Matsushita Electric Industrialnow Panasonic for four years However Hirokane who used enjoyment as a criterion in his life decided that working at a company was not a job for him and that he wanted to draw manga: he left the company to become a manga artist. At the time there were still very few manga artists who had been salaried employees of major companies and Hirokane was one of the first to do so. He made his debut as a manga artist in 1974 with Kaze Kaoru which was serialized in the magazine Big Comic. In 1980 he attracted attention with Hello Harinezumihttps://anilist.co/manga/38846/HelloHarinezumi which was serialized in Young Magazine and in the same year Ningen Kousatenhttps://anilist.co/manga/57953/NingenKousaten original work: Masao Yajimahttps://anilist.co/staff/103688/YajimaMasao which was serialized in Big Comic Original received high acclaim. In 1980 he married the mangaka Saimon Fumihttps://anilist.co/staff/105112/SaimonFumi and in 1983 Kaichou Shima Kosakuhttps://anilist.co/manga/47204/KachouShimaKousaku/ became a big hit when it was serialized in Morning. In addition to manga he has published many books advising middleaged and elderly people on how to live with retirement and death in mind. In his manga works bed scenes are frequently depicted. His concept is to draw them beautifully sexily and elegantly without getting dirty. He professes to be a fan of mature women and his works often depict even the pubic hair of women whose body lines are broken. In 2006 he began working as a dialogue partner for Seibu Mae in the Todays Chit Chat series of books. He spends his mornings working on ideas at a family restaurant writes in the afternoon and early morning and sleeps for about four hours. In order to prioritize his work as a cartoonist he has refused to appear on TV . Shirokane has a distinctive appearance with a mustache. He has also written many essays.and has been a fan of the Hiroshima Carp for 50 years. His hobby is golf in 2010 he said that he had been playing for 26 years but he also said that he was not very good at it making a lot of OB shots. In addition he is a trustee of the Matsushita Institute of Government and Economics and a special lecturer in the Design and Art Department at Yamaguchi Art College. With his wife he has one son and one daughter who is a freelance illustrator. His daughter joined the comedian Kazuma Sparkin on June 15 2019. Businessman Shuzo Sumi was a classmate in junior high school. Kenshi Hirokane won the 30th Shogakukan Manga Award for Ningen Kousaten in 1985 the 15th Kodansha Manga Award for Kachou Shima Kousaku in 1991 and the Excellence Award in the Manga Division of the Japan Media Arts Festival and the Grand Prize of the Japan Cartoonists Association for Tasogare Ryuuseigunhttps://anilist.co/manga/73157/TasogareRyuuseigun/ in 2000. He was also awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2007.