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Place of Birth: Toyonaka, Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan
About Kaoru Shintani
- Kaoru Shintani (?? ???, Shintani Kaoru, born April 26, 1951 in Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist.
- Shintani is best known for his series Area 88.
- In addition to his pilot comics, Shintani has ventured into science fiction, fantasy, comedy, and hentai comics as well.
- In 1985, he was awarded the Shogakukan Manga Award for shonen for Area 88 and Futari Daka.Shintani began his career in 1972 as a shojo artist and was nominated for the Ribon Comics Award for best new artist of that year.
- After working as an assistant to Leiji Matsumoto, the creator of Captain Harlock and Galaxy Express 999 and the character designer for Space Battleship Yamato, Shintani began to publish aviator titles in various comic magazines.
- Serialization of Area 88 began in 1979 and the title has been popular ever since.
- While working as an assistant to Matsumoto, one of Shintani's duties was to construct plastic models for drawing reference.
- Matsumoto often states that he based the character Yattaran (who appears as a supporting character in several Harlock stories) on Shintani.
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