Talk:Kiyohiko Azuma

Missing his right hand?

There's a video with Azuma at [1] (He's the first man on the microphone). It's almost imposable to not notice that his right hand has the appearance of a prosthesis. Anyone have any more information on this? --Paul Soth 07:53, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

On http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1126040 you can see his right hand.(lol

--J. G. Yu 14:01, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Is this sentence really necessary?

"His original works deviate from standard manga plotlines; rather than base science-fiction or fantasy settings, Azuma's manga take place in a completely normal world, and the entertainment of his stories is derived almost solely from the well-developed personalities of his characters."

although the yonkoma format may seem unusual to western manga fans, and azuma's sensibility is definitely unusual, there's a lot of translated manga available to us non-japanese readers out there with perfectly normal settings and no elements of science-fiction or fantasy whatever. indeed, a lot of them take place in high schools. --Scarlettraces 09:17, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I wrote that sentence when I was unfamiliar with slice-of-life stories. You can remove it 24.91.16.229 17:31, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Anime of Yotsuba&!

An anonymous user in Yotsuba&! added a statement about a possible anime that "Supposedly, when asked, Azuma said he did not want the series animated." Does anyone have ANYTHING in the way of a source for this? —Quasirandom 19:31, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Interview in English

In case it's useful for material, the Japan Media Arts Festival citation page for the Yotsuba&! Excellence Prize includes an English version of the questions they ask of all winners, about how he works and his art and so on. —Quasirandom 22:16, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Verifiability?

It is known to his fans that he has drawn hentai stuffs under the penname "Jonokuchi Jouji". But, how do you verify this "fact", my fellow wikipedians? Of course his own internet site don't have this sort of information, and you can't find any "valid" source on this matter, though I think Azuma would not falsify on it if he is to directly questioned.

And, more important thing is that this is seemingly against one of the policies of Wikipedia. WP:NOT#OR - What do you guys think about it? 218.227.184.204 (talk) 07:57, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

From what I recall, it was a bit of information translated from the Japanese wiki article, though it's since been purged from there. Nevertheless, it appears to be an open secret, as major dojinshi retailer Mandarake openly advertises the work as being Azuma's, though they do self-censor in the description (probably either to avoid libel or to prevent it from coming up in a search for his more mainstream works). Through this reference (and probably others), I think it probably is verifiable, though we might also want to put in a note somewhere about how the author seems to have publicly distanced himself from these works (as opposed to, say, Koshi Rikudo, who openly embraces his past and still draws dojinshi). Thoughts? --Julian Grybowski (talk) 11:27, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

If Jonokuchi Jouji's works are being advertised as Azuma's, I'd think that would be sufficient verifiability. Señor IP is right, though, that per the WP:BLP policy we need to cite it -- I've been somewhat worried about this myself, though I've never gotten to prodding it. If someone with enough Japanese could craft a reference, that would be Really Good. —Quasirandom (talk) 14:46, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

A-ZONE

A-ZONE is not a pen name of his. It is the title of his dojinshi. His old website(closed) was also named A-ZONE.953laputa (talk) 10:19, 12 July 2012 (UTC)