Iwaaki won the 2020 Saito Takao Award for his work on Reiri. Parasyte Full Color Collection 1 by Hitoshi Iwaaki: 9781646516391 : Books The sci-fi horror manga classic returns, in a fully-colorized, premium-quality hardcover for the first time If you've never read the story of Shinichi. Historie also earned him the 2012 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Grand Prize. In 2010, Historie took the grand prize in the manga division of the Japan Media Arts Festival. In 1993, Iwaaki received the Kodansha Manga Award for Parasyte.

The next morning, Shinichi comes to learn that this being, known as a Parasyte, is now a part of him. Since then, he has worked mainly for Kodansha, especially Afternoon magazine. S1 E1: On a quiet night, unsuspecting high school student Shinichi Izumi is attacked by an alien creature that burrows deep into his right arm.

In 1985, his short story 'Gomi no Umi' won the newcomer award Tetsuya Chiba Award and was published in a special edition of Morning magazine. He began working as an assistant for manga artist Kazuo Kamimura in 1984. The Mixx editions of Parasyte romanize his name as 'Hitosi Iwaaki', while the Del Rey Manga editions use 'Hitoshi Iwaaki'.ĭuring high school, he was reading a lot of manga by Osamu Tezuka, which inspired him to begin drawing manga himself. Hitoshi Iwaaki ( Japanese: 岩明均, Hepburn: Iwaaki Hitoshi, born July 28, 1960) is a Japanese manga artist, whose works include the science-fiction/horror series Parasyte. The Full Color Collection presents Hitoshi Iwaaki's original manga in hardcover for the first time, with each page carefully colorized and a revised translation for 2022.Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize - Grand Prize (2012) Since its first release, in 1988, Parasyte has inspired live-action films, spinoffs, and, in 2015, a global hit anime series. Shinichi managed to stop the infestation of his body by an alien parasite, but can he find a way to warn humanity of the horrors to come?įor more than 30 years, new generations of readers have been riveted to this unlikely buddy story that unfolds amid a world of monstrosities that never stay hidden for long. No one knows their secret, except an ordinary high school student. But most have chosen to conceal their lethal purposes behind ordinary human faces. Once they have infected their victims, they can twist their hosts's bodies into any abominable shapes they choose: craniums splitting to reveal mouths of sharp teeth, batlike wings erupting from backs, blades tearing through soft hands. They are Parasites: alien creatures who must invade and take control of human hosts to survive. They infest human hosts and consume them. They arrive in silence, out of dark skies. Presented in eight volumes containing about 300 pages of manga each. The sci-fi horror manga classic returns, in a fully-colorized, premium-quality hardcover for the first time! If you've never read the story of Shinichi and the polite and murderous alien infesting his right arm-or even if you already own the series-there's never been a better way to collect it.

Parasyte 1 by Hitoshi Iwaaki