Person: Isayama Hajime 1p4v3i

Isayama Hajime is a mangaka. He was born in Oyama, Oita Prefecture, which is now a part of Hita city. It was in high school, Hita Rinko Senior High School, that he began submitting manga works to contests. After graduating, he matriculated in the manga design program of the arts department at Kyushu Designer Gakuin. In 2006, he applied for the Magazine Grand Prix known as MGP promoted by Kodansha Ltd. and a short version of Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) was given the Fine Work award. At age twenty, he moved to Tokyo and worked at an Internet café in order to pursue a career in manga. This one-shot would later be included in the series' guidebook and included with the first Blu-ray of the anime adaptation.

In 2008, he applied for the 80th Weekly Shounen Magazine Freshman Manga Award, where his work Heart Break One was given the Special Encouragement Award. His other work, orz, was chosen as a selected work in the same contest the following year.

In 2009, his first serial work, Attack on Titan, started in the monthly Bessatsu Shounen Magazine. It won the Shounen category of the 35th Kodansha Manga Award in 2011, and was nominated for both the 4th annual Manga Taishou award and the 16th annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. Attack on Titan is released in English by Kodansha Comics USA and has inspired five spin-off manga series, three light novel series, a television anime adaptation, several visual novels and video games, and a two part live-action film.

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