Boichi

Boichi began his career in South Korea, debuting in 1993 and spending his first decade primarily in girls’ manga. The creators he admired most then were the women of 1990s Korean girls’ manga, and he believes their influence may be why the strongest characters in his own work are women. From 1999 to 2001, he also helped launch South Korea’s first digital manga platform and serialized his work there.

He debuted in Japan in 2004 and has lived there since 2007. Sun-Ken Rock, launched in 2006, was his first action manga. He went on to create ORIGIN, winner of the Manga Division Grand Prize at the 22nd Japan Media Arts Festival, and to illustrate Riichiro Inagaki’s Dr. STONE, which won the shonen category of the 64th Shogakukan Manga Awards, one of Japan’s most prestigious manga prizes. With a deep knowledge of physics and film, he works across a wide range of genres, grounds his figure drawing in artistic anatomy rather than manga shorthand, and also writes instructional guides and critical essays on manga.