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Biography
Sui Ishida (石田 スイ, Ishida Sui) is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for his dark fantasy series Tokyo Ghoul, a story about a young man named Ken Kaneki who gets transformed into a ghoul, after encountering one.
Career
Tokyo Ghoul started as a series of one-shots in 2010, one of which garnered second place at the Weekly Young Jump 113th Grand Prix. The series then ran from 2011 to 2014 in Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump magazine, and was later adapted into a light novel and anime series in 2014. The manga was also translated into English where it topped The New York Times Best Seller list in 2015. A prequel titled Tokyo Ghoul [Jack] was briefly serialized digitally on Jump Live in 2013. In 2014, he began a sequel titled Tokyo Ghoul:re. As of March 2017, Tokyo Ghoul and its sequel had over 22 million collected volumes in circulation.
In 2016, Ishida created a 69-page storyboard of a manga chapter based on Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter × Hunter series. Depicting the past of the character Hisoka, the storyboard was released digitally via Shonen Jump+ on June 2, 2016.
Works
| Title | Year | Notes | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tokyo Ghoul | 2011–2014 | Serialized in Weekly Young Jump by Shueisha Collected into 14 volumes | |
| Tokyo Ghoul [Jack] | 2013 | Serialized in Jump Live by Shueisha Collected into 1 volume | |
| Tokyo Ghoul:re | 2014–present | Serialized in Weekly Young Jump by Shueisha Collected into 10 volumes as of January 2017 |