Mizu Sahara - The Place Promised in Our Early Days Manga Creator
by: Dani Brown
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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 Time: 5:10 AM
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Mizu Sahara was born May 10, 1977. She's a rare writer drawing manga in seinen with its inevitable elements of drama, romance and slices of life. She's also known in the BL community as Sumomo Yumeka or Sahara Keita for her shojo or Chikyuya/Sasshi for doujinshi works.
Her published seinen mangas are
* Hoshi no Koe manga (aka Voices of a Distant Star, 2005)
* Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho (The Place Promised in Our Early Days, 2006)
* Bus Hashiru (The Bus Takes You and Runs, 2007)
* Nanairo Sekai (2007)
* My Girl (2007)
* Watashitachi no Shiawase na Jikan (Our Happy Hours, 2007)
* Sukima Shiki (Sukima Style, 2008)
The Voices of a Distant Star manga (aka Hoshi no Koe, 2005) released in 1 volume is one of Sahara's best seinens. You're sure to have seen the same anime even without reading the manga. Its author, Makoto Shinkai was the anime director (mostly known for this production) with Mizu Sahara as the manga illustrator. The anime underlay the manga with the same story from a bit different perspective.
Its heroine, Mikako is a space partisan having to leave her beloved Noboru behind. Connected with him only by SMS, Mikako hardly ages in deep timeless space. Will the rebel war ruin their love?
Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho (The Place Promised in Our Early Days, 2006) is another co-project by Makoto Shinkai and Mizu Sahara acting the same as in Voices of a Distant Star. It's after the same anime by Makoto Shinkai released in 2004.
It's an alternate history of post-war Japan with its south allied with the US and Hokkaido annexed by an enigmatic Union. This northern island has a mysterious and gigantic metal tower. In 1996 3 teenagers (Hiroki, Takuya and Sayuri) promise to build a test stealthy plane to cross over to Hokkaido and demystify the tower. Only 3 years later do they really set out to find a clue and its link with Sayuri's strange coma treated in Tokyo all this period of disillusion.
Bus Hashiru manga (The Bus Takes You and Runs, 2007) united 2 parts, Bus Hashiru and Nanairo Sekai in 1 volume. The former is a collection of 5 short stories about bus stops. In all encounters with strangers there you discover something new - an unexpected view on life, a lost love...
The 2nd part adds 2 stories - The Glasses Thief and Adult-Uniform.
2007 released My Girl manga with 4 volumes still being published. Kazama Masamune, a single young man, loses his beloved during cherry blossoms. In a little girl outside work he knows his daughter secretly raised by his lover. This tragic spring turns into a dramatic still vivid one.
In 2007 Sahara also released a 1-volume Our Happy Hours manga (Watashitachi no Shiawase na Jikan) after a short story by South Korea's most popular female novelist, Gong Ji-Young. This manga describes nice, harmonic and unique characters.
There a pianist, Juri attempted suicides before taken to help her aunt in a jail with death-sentenced murderers. She meets such, Yuu with whom to supress inner pain from heart wounds and soon share an earnest desire to live.
2008 released one of Sahara's latest seinens - Sukima Shiki (Sukima Style). Its one volume unites short stories after various songs by a Japanese band, Sukima Switch with each chapter written after some song.
Mizu Sahara highlights heroes' feelings and interpersonal relations in both her own and co-written works. At a spare minute take a read of her manga for its vivid plots.
About the Author
Dani is a huge lover of shounen manga. He suggests visiting the AnyManga.com to read School Rumble manga or Black Lagoon manga online.
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