Yoshitoki Ōima

Yoshitoki Ōima (大今 良時, Ōima Yoshitoki, born March 15, 1989) is a Japanese manga artist and writer, best known for her manga series A Silent Voice and To Your Eternity.

Yoshitoki Ōima
大今 良時
Born	(1989-03-15) March 15, 1989 (age 36) Ōgaki, Gifu, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Manga artist
Known for	A Silent Voice To Your Eternity

Life

Ōima was born on March 15, 1989, in Ōgaki, Japan, as the third daughter of a sign language interpreter mother and has an older sister and an older brother. Due to her mother's work as a sign language interpreter Ōima was inspired to write the A Silent Voice manga series where she got help by her mother and her sister working on the series.^[1][2]

Her first manga was Mardock Scramble which was an adaptation of the same-named novel written by Tow Ubukata and was released in 2009.^[2] She was also responsible for an illustration of the ending sequence of the ninth episode of Attack on Titan.^[3] After her success with A Silent Voice Yoshitoki Ōima worked alongside other manga artists on a collaboration manga called Ore no 100-wame!!. In 2016 Yoshitoki Ōima released her third full manga series under the moniker To Your Eternity.

In 2015, Yoshitoki Ōima won the New Creator Prize for A Silent Voice at the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.^[4] A Silent Voice was nominated for an Eisner Award a year later,^[5] the Rudolf-Dirks-Award and the Max & Moritz Prize in 2017 and 2018.^[6][7] In 2018 she won at French Japan Expo the Daruma d′Or Manga for A Silent Voice and the Daruma de la Meilleure Nouvelle Série for To Your Eternity.^[8]

Works

• Mardock Scramble (2009–2012; serialized in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine)
• A Silent Voice (2013–2014; serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine)
• Ore no 100-wame!! (2015; alongside other manga artists)
• To Your Eternity (2016–present; serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine)

Accolades

• Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize^[4]
  • 2015: New Creator Prize for A Silent Voice (won)
• Manga Taishō^[9]
  • 2015: Manga for A Silent Voice (nominated)
  • 2018: Manga for To Your Eternity (nominated)^[10]
• Eisner Awards^[5]
  • 2016: Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia for A Silent Voice (nominated)
• Rudolf-Dirks-Awards^[6]
  • 2017: Best Scenario (Asia) for A Silent Voice (won)
• Max & Moritz Prize^[7]
  • 2018: for A Silent Voice (nominated)
• Japan Expo^[8]
  • 2018: Daruma d′Or Manga for A Silent Voice (won)
  • 2018: Daruma de la Meilleure Nouvelle Série for To Your Eternity (won)