Takashi Shiina

Takashi Shiina
Born	(1965-06-24) 24 June 1965 Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Manga artist
Spouse(s)	Aya Shimizu
Awards	1993 Shogakukan Manga Award (Ghost Sweeper Mikami)

Takashi Shiina (椎名 高志, Shiina Takashi, born 24 June 1965) is a Japanese manga artist who writes primarily for the weekly Shogakukan manga publication Weekly Shōnen Sunday. When he started at the company in 1989, he began with an anthology of various shorts and one-shots collectively known as Shiina Department Store. Eventually one of these one-shots, about a beautiful, money grubbing female exorcist and her lecherous companion, would become the basis of his best known work: Ghost Sweeper Mikami: Gokuraku Daisakusen!! (better known by its shorter name: Ghost Sweeper Mikami, or GS Mikami) Running from 1991 through 1999, it became well known and popular work in Sunday, leading to an anime of the series from 1993 through 1994 by Toei Animation as well as a Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1993. Even as he had success with Mikami, Shiina continued to create various one-shot stories on the side of his main series.

After the end of GS Mikami, Shiina tried to create new series for the manga anthology, such as Ichiban-yu no Kanata and Mister Japan. He also created new series and shorts on the side, including GS Holmes: Gokuraku Daisakusen!! (an alternate take on Sherlock Holmes co-starring the robotic Maria from GS Mikami) In 2003, Shiina introduced another of his many ideas in Shōnen Sunday in short form: Zettai Karen Children, about three young girls with great psychic powers and terrifying ambitions. Finding some success with it in short form, the manga artist introduced it as a weekly series in 2005, where it continued to run in Weekly Shonen Sunday until June 2021.

Works

• Shiina Department Store (1991)
• Ghost Sweeper Mikami (1991–1999)
• Mister Japan (2000)
• Ichiban-yu no Kanata (2002)
• GS Holmes Gokuraku Taisakusen!! (2004)
• Zettai Karen Children (2005–2021)
• Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon (2021-present)

External links

• Takashi Shiina's Official Website
• Takashi Shiina's blog
• Takashi Shiina at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
• Takashi Shiina on Twitter

Shogakukan Manga Award – Shōnen
1970s	Poe no Ichizoku and They Were Eleven by Moto Hagio (1975) • Captain and Play Ball by Akio Chiba and Ganbare Genki by Yū Koyama (1976) • Galaxy Express 999 and Senjo Manga series by Leiji Matsumoto (1977) • Dame Oyaji by Mitsutoshi Furuya (1978) • Toward the Terra and Kaze to Ki no Uta by Keiko Takemiya (1979)
1980s	Urusei Yatsura by Rumiko Takahashi (1980) • Dr. Slump by Akira Toriyama (1981) • Miyuki and Touch by Mitsuru Adachi (1982) • Musashi no Ken by Motoka Murakami (1983) • Futari Daka and Area 88 by Kaoru Shintani (1984) • Hatsukoi Scandal and Tobe! Jinrui II by Akira Oze (1985) • Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin by Yoshihiro Takahashi (1986) • Just Meet and Fuyu Monogatari by Hidenori Hara (1987) • B.B. by Osamu Ishiwata (1988) • Ucchare Goshogawara by Tsuyoshi Nakaima (1989)
1990s	Mobile Police Patlabor by Masami Yuki (1990) • Ushio and Tora by Kazuhiro Fujita (1991) • Ghost Sweeper Mikami by Takashi Shiina and Yaiba by Gosho Aoyama (1992) • YuYu Hakusho by Yoshihiro Togashi (1993) • Slam Dunk by Takehiko Inoue (1994) • Major by Takuya Mitsuda (1995) • Firefighter! Daigo of Fire Company M by Masahito Soda (1996) • Ganba! Fly High by Shinji Morisue and Hiroyuki Kikuta (1997) • ARMS by Kyoichi Nanatsuki and Ryōji Minagawa (1998) • Monkey Turn by Katsutoshi Kawai and Hikaru no Go by Yumi Hotta and Takeshi Obata (1999)
2000s	Detective Conan by Gosho Aoyama and Cheeky Angel by Hiroyuki Nishimori (2000) • InuYasha by Rumiko Takahashi (2001) • Konjiki no Gasshu!! by Makoto Raiku (2002) • Yakitate!! Japan by Takashi Hashiguchi and Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa (2003) • Bleach by Tite Kubo (2004) • Wild Life by Masato Fujisaki (2005) • Kekkaishi by Yellow Tanabe (2006) • Ace of Diamond by Yuji Terajima (2007) • Cross Game by Mitsuru Adachi (2008) • Sket Dance by Kenta Shinohara (2009)
2010s	King Golf by Ken Sasaki (2010) • Nobunaga Concerto by Ayumi Ishii (2011) • Silver Spoon by Hiromu Arakawa (2012) • Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic by Shinobu Ohtaka (2013)