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Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
About Eiji Nonaka
- Eiji Nonaka (?? ??, Nonaka Eiji) is a Japanese manga artist and humorist.
- Eiji writes and illustrates shonen and seinen manga.
- His work appears in several manga magazines published by Kodansha. His most popular serial, Cromartie High School, ran in Weekly Shonen Magazine from 2001 to 2006.
- The serial won Eiji the 2002 Kodansha Manga Award in the shonen category.
- In 2003, it was a jury selection in the seventh annual Japan Media Arts Festival.
- That same year, an animated series based on the serial premiered on TV Tokyo.
- A live-action feature film, called Cromartie High – The Movie, followed in 2005.
- A spin-off sequel titled Cromartie Koko Shokuinshitsu ("Cromartie High School Staff Room") debuted on October 27th 2018 on Kodansha's Magazine Pocket app.
- Nonaka authored the manga while the art was drawn by Ino Ichiban.Kodansha republished the serial in 17 paperback volumes (tankobon).
- From 2001 through 2006, they released two or three volumes per year as the story progressed.
- ADV Manga published English translations of the first 12 volumes in 2005–2007; the first four of these were nominated for a 2006 Eisner Award in the category "Best U.S.
- Edition of Foreign Material".Although Eiji usually illustrates his own work, his shonen serial Double-J (2009) is illustrated by Maru Asakura (????).
- Double-J was adapted into an animated miniseries, which aired on Nippon TV in 2011.
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