Oshioshio

Oshioshio (おしおしお) is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator. Her works include the manga Kamisama to Quintet, Sakura Maimai, and My Deer Friend Nokotan. She is also a light novel illustrator and VTuber character designer, most notably Hololive Production's Japanese VTuber Amane Kanata [ja].

Biography

Oshioshio is a native of Kanagawa Prefecture.[1] After graduating from art school, she worked for an advertising company, but left after about a year to pursue a career in illustration.[2] While working on doujinshi activities, she was invited by an editor at Houbunsha to make her debut as a commercial manga artist with Kamisama to Quintet,[2] a yonkoma manga depicting the campus life of art school students.[3] She also began serializing another manga, Sakura Maimai, in Comic Cune.[2]

Through her editor at Comic Cune, Oshioshio was approached by an editor at MF Bunko J for her first light novel illustration: Noboru Okazaki [ja]'s Hime-sama, Sekai Horobu kara Gohan Tabete Ikimasuyo!.[2] Oshioshio, who had long admired light novel illustrator Kouhaku Kuroboshi, subsequently made her light novel illustration debut with the first volume in 2016.[2]

She is the character designer for Hololive Production VTuber Amane Kanata [ja] and Nijisanji VTuber Soraboshi Kirame.[4] Real Sound said that both character designs "are short and small-chested; these two points seem to be non-negotiable for Oshio, and even when the two of them later asked her to make them taller "make her bust bigger" or "make her taller," she refused every time".[4]

In 2021, she exhibited at the 10th edition of Sankei Shimbun Co., Ltd. [ja]'s Eshi100 [ja] exhibition.[5] In September 2022, her first solo exhibition, Seikō (青光, lit. 'Blue light'), was held at Pixiv Waen Gallery.[1] In February 2023, Ichijinsha released an art book on her work, Oshioshio Gashū: Ao no Hibi.[6]

She later began serializing the comedy manga My Deer Friend Nokotan in Shōnen Magazine Edge  [ja].[7] In 2024, she also assisted in the production of the manga's anime adaptation, including with casting and adding anime-only content.[8]

Among her themes are illustrations of sad, crying girls,[2] as well as "conveying the emotions of characters, focusing on illustrations of fragile and delicate girls".[1]

Works

Manga

Illustrations

  • Hime-sama, Sekai Horobu kara Gohan Tabete Ikimasuyo (2016)[9]
  • King of Prism by Pretty Rhythm Comic Anthology (2016)[10]
  • Hinako Note Official Comic Anthology (2017, frontispiece)[11]
  • Isekai-dō no Mia: Omochikaeri wa Ajin Maid desu ka? (2017; written by Kōta Amana [ja])[12]
  • Ore no Tachi Ichi wa Koko Janai! (2017-2018; written by Sei Utsuda [ja])[13]
  • Avalon Bitter: Kōfuku o Nozomu Yuri Anthology (2018)[14]
  • Tonari no Kyūketsuki-san Official Comic Anthology (2018, color illustration)[15]
  • Shitsuren Bunko: Kakioroshi Shitsuren Shōsetsu Anthology (2019, cover)[16]
  • Gokumon Nadeshiko koko ni Ari (2023; originally by Nanao Fushimi)[17]

Others

  • Oshioshio Gashū: Ao no Hibi (おしおしお画集 青の日々, lit. 'Oshioshio Art Collection: Blue Days'; 2023)[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c ""天音かなた"や"空星きらめ"のキャラデザも手掛けたおしおしお氏の初個展がスタート". MdN Design Interactive. 2 September 2022. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Oshioshio (17 July 2020). "イラストレーターへの小説の表紙依頼ってどうやるの？マンガ家＆イラストレーター・おしおしおさんインタビュー". Pixivision (Interview) (in Japanese). Interviewed by Wataru Umino. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
  3. ^ "神様とクインテット|漫画の殿堂". Houbunsha. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
  4. ^ a b Kusano, Niji (7 October 2023). "にじさんじ・空星きらめが放つ"まばゆい光"を追って　『神域』の宇宙できらめく蒼い星の軌跡をなぞる". Real Sound. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
  5. ^ "絵師100人展 10". Eshi100 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2 November 2024.
  6. ^ a b "おしおしお画集 青の日々". Ichijinsha. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
  7. ^ "元ヤン×シカの少女のガールズコメディ「しかのこのこのここしたんたん」1巻". Comic Natalie (in Japanese). 17 July 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
  8. ^ Eisenbeis, Richard (27 September 2024). "The Staff of My Deer Friend Nokotan Were Shocked by Its Worldwide Popularity". Anime News Network. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
  9. ^ "姫さま、世界滅ぶからごはん食べ行きますよ！". MF Bunko J. Archived from the original on 18 May 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
  10. ^ "読めば世界が輝き出す「キンプリ」初のアンソロ！ 大川ぶくぶ、志摩時緒ら参加". Comic Natalie. 26 June 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
  11. ^ "もうすぐアニメ開始「ひなこのーと」3巻、アンソロ、三月の初画集が同時発売". Comic Natalie. 27 March 2017. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
  12. ^ "異世界堂のミア お持ち帰りは亜人メイドですか？". Takarajima Channel. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
  13. ^ "俺の立ち位置はココじゃない！". Shogakukan. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
  14. ^ "テーマは"女性同士の幸福な関係性"、百合アンソロ「Avalon」2冊同時発売". Comic Natalie. 25 June 2018. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
  15. ^ "「となりの吸血鬼さん」新刊&アンソロ同発、キューン本誌にはラバスト付き". Comic Natalie. 27 September 2018. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
  16. ^ "【2019夏コミ情報】7人のライトノベル作家が執筆する合同小説同人誌『失恋文庫〜書き下ろし失恋小説アンソロジー〜』をご紹介". LN News. 6 August 2019. Retrieved 5 May 2022.
  17. ^ "獄門撫子此処ニ在リ". Shogakukan. Retrieved 2 November 2024.