Posuka Demizu
Posuka Demizu (出水ぽすか, Demizu Posuka) is the illustrator of Cool Shock Old B.T., a spin-off manga of Cool Shock B.T. written by Nisio Isin.
She has serialized various manga and one-shots in different magazines, and is particularly well-known for being the illustrator of The Promised Neverland, which was serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump.
Biography
Posuka Demizu was born on January 17, 1988 and lives in Tokyo, Japan, where she graduated from a certain national university.[1] In June 2008, under the pseudonym "Asuka Demizu", she received an Honorable Mention in the Children's Division of the 62nd Shogakukan Manga Award for her work Flame Dragon Kagero. Demizu debuted as a manga artist with The Strongest Hamster! Mameta, a one-shot published in Shogakukan's CoroCoro Comic February 2009 issue. A year later, she released the one-shot manga Wild Dodge Volta in the October 2010 issue of CoroCoro Comic.
From 2013 to 2015, she illustrated the serialized manga Oreca Monsters Adventure Retsuden for CoroCoro Comic magazine, based on the popular card game Oreca Battle.[2]
Beginning in 2016, Demizu collaborated with author Kaiu Shirai on The Promised Neverland. The series began in Weekly Shonen Jump's 35th issue on August 1, 2016, and ended in the magazine's 28th issue on June 15, 2020.
In November 2016, PIE International published her first art book titled "PONE - Posuka Demizu Art Book". It releases in English titled "The Art of Posuka Demizu" on July 10, 2017. On September 3, 2021, she published Kaiu Shirai x Posuka Demizu: Beyond The Promised Neverland, a collection of short stories in collaboration with Shirai.[3]
When her collaboration with Nisio Isin for Cool Shock Old B.T. was announced in September 2021, Demizu stated that she was proud to be chosen as the illustrator and will do her best to liven up the world of the series.[4]
Works
Manga
- The Strongest Hamster! Mameta (さいきょーハムスター！まめ太, Feburary 2009) (One-Shot, Debut)
- Wild Dodge Volta (ワイルドドッヂ ボルタ, October 2010) (One-Shot)
- Rotating Geargian! (ぐるっと！ギアギアン, 2010) (4-koma)
- Hana-sake! Hanakappa (はなさけ!はなかっぱ, 2011-2013)
- Toy Town (おもちゃタウン, 2011-2016)
- Dumomo & Nupepe's Great Discovery|ズモモとヌペペのジッケン大発見|2012}}
- Transformers Prime (トランスフォーマー プライム 4コママンガ, 2012) (4-koma)
- Chouzetsu!! Namake Monkey: Hideyoshi (April 2013) (One-Shot)
- Tomato Eyeball (トマト目玉, August 2013) (One-Shot)
- Hey! Great Animal Kaiser: God (おっす!グレートアニマルカイザーゴッド, 2013-2014)
- Hey! Great Animal Kaiser: Bigger (おっす!グレートアニマルカイザービッガー, 2014-2015)
- Monster Retsuden Oreca Battle (オレカバトル オレカモンスターズ冒険烈伝, 2013-2015)
- It's the Demon King! Oreca Battle (魔王だゼッ!! オレカバトル, 2015)
- Poppy's Wish (ポピィの願い, 2016) (Writer: Kaiu Shirai, One-shot)
- The Promised Neverland (約束のネバーランド, 2016-2020) (Writer: Kaiu Shirai, One-shot)
- Spirit Photographer Saburo Kono (心霊写真師 鴻野三郎, 2020) (Writer: Kaiu Shirai, One-shot)
- Dreams Come True, 2020 (Writer: Kaiu Shirai, One-shot)
- We Were Born, 2021 (Writer: Kaiu Shirai, One-shot)
- Miroirs, 2021 (Writer: Kaiu Shirai, One-shot)
- DC3, 2021 (Writer: Kaiu Shirai, One-shot)
- Cool Shock Old B.T. (魔老紳士ビーティー, 2021-2023) (Writer: Nisio Isin)
- Chicken Survivor (チキンサバイバー, 2022) (Writer: Umezu Umekichi)
- Person Inside (中の人, 2022) (Writer: Okushou)
- Beyblade X (BEYBLADE X, 2023) (Writer: Homura Kawamoto, Hikaru Muno)
Other Works
- Kirugumi (キルぐみ, 2013-2014) (Novels, Writer: Yu Takeuchi)
- Young Sherlock Holmes (ヤング・シャーロック・ホームズ, 2012-2013) (Novels, Writer: Andy Lane)
- Real Keidoro (リアルケイドロ, 2022) (Novels, Writer:Yoshinori Ebashi)
- Almark (アルマーク, 2022-2023) (Writer: Noboru Yamada)
- Dragons of Wonderhatch (ワンダーハッチ -空飛ぶ竜の島, 2023) (Character Design)
Gallery
B.T. and Koichi Mugikari
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Official Profile
- ↑ Oreca Monsters Adventure Retsuden. February 7, 2019.
- ↑ "'Kaiu Shirai x Posuka Demizu: Beyond The Promised Neverland' Released, Includes Special Episodes Drawn After 'The Promised Neverland' Conclusion", Natalie, September 3, 2021.
- ↑ @DemizuPosuka (September 17, 2021), "Cool Shock Old B.T. Announcement", on Twitter.
