Oshioshio
{{Short description|Japanese manga artist and illustrator}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2024}}
{{nihongo|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 {{ill|Amane Kanata|ja|天音かなた}}.
Biography
Oshioshio is a native of Kanagawa Prefecture. After graduating from art school, she worked for an advertising company, but left after about a year to pursue a career in illustration. 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, a yonkoma manga depicting the campus life of art school students.{{Cite web |title=神様とクインテット{{!}}漫画の殿堂 |url=https://houbunsha.co.jp/comics/detail.php?p=%25BF%25C0%25CD%25CD%25A4%25C8%25A5%25AF%25A5%25A4%25A5%25F3%25A5%25C6%25A5%25C3%25A5%25C8 |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=Houbunsha}} She also began serializing another manga, Sakura Maimai, in Comic Cune.
Through her editor at Comic Cune, Oshioshio was approached by an editor at MF Bunko J for her first light novel illustration: {{ill|Noboru Okazaki|ja|おかざき登}}'s Hime-sama, Sekai Horobu kara Gohan Tabete Ikimasuyo!. Oshioshio, who had long admired light novel illustrator Kouhaku Kuroboshi, subsequently made her light novel illustration debut with the first volume in 2016.
She is the character designer for Hololive Production VTuber {{ill|Amane Kanata|ja|天音かなた}} and Nijisanji VTuber Soraboshi Kirame.{{Cite news |last=Kusano |first=Niji |date=2023-10-07 |title=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 |url=https://realsound.jp/tech/2023/10/post-1454060.html |access-date=2024-11-02 |work=Real Sound}} 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".
In 2021, she exhibited at the 10th edition of Sankei Shimbun's {{ill|Eshi100|ja|絵師100人展}} exhibition.{{Cite web |title=絵師100人展 10 |url=https://www.eshi100.com/season10/ |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=Eshi100 |language=ja}} In September 2022, her first solo exhibition, {{nihongo|Seikō|青光||{{lit|Blue light}}}}, was held at Pixiv Waen Gallery.{{Cite news |date=2022-09-02 |title="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 |url=https://mdn.co.jp/news/4037 |access-date=2024-11-02 |work=MdN Design Interactive}} In February 2023, Ichijinsha released an art book on her work, Oshioshio Gashū: Ao no Hibi.
She later began serializing the comedy manga My Deer Friend Nokotan in {{ill|Shōnen Magazine Edge|ja|少年マガジンエッジ|italics=y}}.{{Cite news |date=2020-07-17 |title=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 |url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/388219 |access-date=2024-11-02 |work=Comic Natalie |language=ja}} In 2024, she also assisted in the production of the manga's anime adaptation, including with casting and adding anime-only content.{{Cite news |last=Eisenbeis |first=Richard |date=2024-09-27 |title=The Staff of My Deer Friend Nokotan Were Shocked by Its Worldwide Popularity |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2024-09-27/the-staff-of-my-deer-friend-nokotan-were-shocked-by-its-worldwide-popularity/.215100 |access-date=2024-11-10 |work=Anime News Network}}
Among her themes are illustrations of sad, crying girls,{{Cite interview |last=Oshioshio |interviewer=Wataru Umino |title=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 |url=https://www.pixivision.net/en/a/5690 |access-date=2024-11-02 |work=Pixivision |date=2020-07-17 |language=ja}} as well as "conveying the emotions of characters, focusing on illustrations of fragile and delicate girls".
Works
=Manga=
- Kamisama to Quintet (2014-2016)
- Sakura Maimai (2014-2018)
- My Deer Friend Nokotan (2019–present)
=Illustrations=
- Hime-sama, Sekai Horobu kara Gohan Tabete Ikimasuyo (2016){{Cite web |title=姫さま、世界滅ぶからごはん食べ行きますよ！ |url=https://mfbunkoj.jp/product/himesama-gohan/321509000350.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240518232422/https://mfbunkoj.jp/product/himesama-gohan/321509000350.html |archive-date=2024-05-18 |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=MF Bunko J}}
- King of Prism by Pretty Rhythm Comic Anthology (2016){{Cite news|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/192278|title=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|work=Comic Natalie|date=2016-06-26|accessdate=2024-07-13}}
- Hinako Note Official Comic Anthology (2017, frontispiece){{Cite news|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/226230|title=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|work=Comic Natalie|date=2017-03-27|accessdate=2024-07-13}}
- Isekai-dō no Mia: Omochikaeri wa Ajin Maid desu ka? (2017; written by {{ill|Kōta Amana|ja|天那光汰}}){{Cite web |title=異世界堂のミア お持ち帰りは亜人メイドですか？ |url=https://tkj.jp/book/?cd=02728001 |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=Takarajima Channel}}
- Ore no Tachi Ichi wa Koko Janai! (2017-2018; written by {{ill|Sei Utsuda|ja|宇津田晴}}){{Cite web |title=俺の立ち位置はココじゃない！ |url=https://www.shogakukan.co.jp/books/09451708 |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=Shogakukan}}
- Avalon Bitter: Kōfuku o Nozomu Yuri Anthology (2018){{Cite news|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/288138|title=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|work=Comic Natalie|date=2018-06-25|accessdate=2024-07-13}}
- Tonari no Kyūketsuki-san Official Comic Anthology (2018, color illustration){{Cite news|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/301353|title=「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|work=Comic Natalie|date=2018-09-27|accessdate=2024-07-13}}
- Shitsuren Bunko: Kakioroshi Shitsuren Shōsetsu Anthology (2019, cover){{Cite news|title=【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|work=LN News|date=2019-08-06|url=https://ln-news.com/articles/97269|accessdate=2022-05-05}}
- Gokumon Nadeshiko koko ni Ari (2023; originally by Nanao Fushimi){{Cite web |title=獄門撫子此処ニ在リ |url=https://www.shogakukan.co.jp/books/09453142 |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=Shogakukan}}
=Others=
- {{nihongo|Oshioshio Gashū: Ao no Hibi|おしおしお画集 青の日々||{{lit|Oshioshio Art Collection: Blue Days}}; 2023}}{{Cite web |title=おしおしお画集 青の日々 |url=https://data.ichijinsha.co.jp/detail/75801806 |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=Ichijinsha}}
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