Makoto Isshiki

{{Short description|Japanese manga artist}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}

{{Infobox comics creator

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| nationality = Japanese

| area = Manga artist

| alias = Kōsuke Muku

| notable works = Forest of Piano, Hanada Shōnen-shi

| awards = The 19th Kodansha Manga Award, Grand Prize for Manga

| website = http://east.portland.ne.jp/~kntk123/manga/isshiki/index.htm

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{{nihongo|Makoto Isshiki|一色まこと|Isshiki Makoto|lead=yes}} is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known for her series Forest of Piano, which has been adapted as an anime film and received the Grand Prize for manga at the 2008 Japan Media Arts Festival.{{cite web | url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-12-10/tsumiki-no-ie-piano-forest-kaiba-win-media-arts-awards | title=Tsumiki no Ie, Piano Forest, Kaiba Win Media Arts Awards | publisher=Anime News Network | date=10 December 2008 | accessdate=12 December 2008}} She won the 1994 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga for Hanada Shōnen-shi,{{cite web|url=http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/kodansha.shtml |author=Joel Hahn |title=Kodansha Manga Awards |work=Comic Book Awards Almanac |accessdate=2007-08-21 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070816031310/http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/kodansha.shtml |archivedate=2007-08-16 |url-status=dead }} which has also been adapted as both an anime television series and a live-action film. From November 2021 to August 2022, Isshiki worked with Takashi Nagasaki on Child from the Dark, based on Nagasaki's novel Yomi Nemuru Mori -Daigo Shinji no Hakuran Suiri File-. Isshiki was credited as {{nihongo|"Kōsuke Muku"|椋洸介}} during the manga's serialization in Big Comic, but is credited by her real name in its tankōbon.{{cite web|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/489589 |script-title=ja:「闇の少年」作者の“椋洸介”は「ピアノの森」の一色まこと、単行本上下巻が9月に発売 |website=Natalie |date=August 15, 2022 |access-date=August 15, 2022 |language=ja}}