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Osamu Nishi (Japanese: おさむにし, born April 22, 1992 ) is a Japanese manga artist born in Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan. Osamu Nishi began her career as a manga artist in 2011 and had her first serialized story, Hotel Helheim, published in Jump Square magazine in 2014. Her second series, Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun, has been running in Shonen Champion magazine since 2017 and gone on to be a hit anime series.[1]

History

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Even if she was drawing illustrations since her teenage years, she didn’t get any experience at drawing mangas. However she was always interested in the last manga out or the last anime production when visiting Animate Toyohashi (chain of manga shops) with her friends on the way to School.

The Avatar that Osamu Nishi commonly uses in some of her works.

Thinking about her professional career since graduation, she couldn’t find anything else to do, so she decided to try drawing manga.

She participated in the project Tokiwaso. And in 2011 her first own work Shonen K gained an honorific mention in the Jump SQ Monthly Awards and was published in Jump SQ.19 Autumn (Shueisha), making her debut. Around this time, she started seriously considering being a manga artist.

At the age of 19, she moved to Tokyo to focus on her artist career as a mangaka. Her one-shot Hotel Hellheim who participated in the first SQ.NEXT CUP in 2013 and was published in the October edition 2013 of Jump Square (Shueisha) won and was published from the edition of November 2014 to 2015. It was serialized in Jump Square until the September edition. This was Nishi's first serialized work.

Since her debut work, from Shonen K to Hotel Helheim, the content was mainly dark fantasy, so while she was talking about how to make her next work a better manga, she decided that she wanted to make a complete change in her next job by making a brighter manga. The person in charge showed great interest in her next story about « a child admitted to school. » Nishi finished the plot in a few days and the title came up the next day. At the moment when he saw the name, the editor-in-chief of Weekly Shonen Champion immediately decided to publish it in series, and since march 2017, Weekly Shonen Champion (Akita Shoten) is publishing Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun. Her most popular series had begun.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Nishi, Osamu (2024-10-08). Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun 10. Vertical Inc. ISBN 978-1-64729-271-3.
  2. ^ "Osamu Nishi". Mairimashita! Iruma-kun Wiki. Retrieved 2024-03-31.