Seiji Hayashi
Description
Seiji Hayashi is a Japanese manga artist, primarily known for creating the comedy and martial arts series I'm From Japan (Jimoto ga Japan). He began his professional career in the manga industry in the mid-2010s. In 2014, a short story titled Hide was shortlisted for the 81st Akatsuka Award, a prize for comedic manga. He made his first appearance in Shueisha's Jump NEXT! magazine in 2015 with a work titled Dohyo ni Saku Bara. In 2016, his one-shot manga Human Usui Kazuomi was published in Weekly Shōnen Jump. Later that same year, an early version of I'm From Japan was also published in Weekly Shōnen Jump as a two-part story.
Before the serialization of I'm From Japan, Hayashi created Chikyuu Ningen Terra-chan, a short series published on the Shonen Jump+ digital platform from May to June 2017. In April 2018, he published Oidemase Yamaguchi on the same platform, a manga created to promote tourism in Yamaguchi Prefecture that served as a precursor to his later work.
I'm From Japan became Hayashi's first major serialized work. The story follows a student named Japan Hinomoto, a master of a unique martial art based on the 47 prefectures of Japan, and his classmate Tokio Abiko. The manga was first serialized in the flagship magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from September 15, 2018, to May 27, 2019. It was then transferred to the monthly magazine Saikyō Jump, where it continued from June 1, 2019, until its conclusion on April 2, 2020. Shueisha compiled the series' chapters into six tankōbon volumes, released from January 4, 2019, to May 13, 2020. The series was also published in English simultaneously with Japan on the Manga Plus platform starting in January 2019.
The success of the manga led to an anime adaptation. The I'm From Japan anime television series was produced by the studio ODDJOB and directed by Isamu Ueno, with Masato Naruse and Kōji Hashimoto handling the series composition. The anime consisted of 50 episodes and was broadcast on TV Tokyo from April 8, 2019, to March 23, 2020. The series stars Minami Takayama as the voice of the protagonist, Japan Hinomoto.
Before the serialization of I'm From Japan, Hayashi created Chikyuu Ningen Terra-chan, a short series published on the Shonen Jump+ digital platform from May to June 2017. In April 2018, he published Oidemase Yamaguchi on the same platform, a manga created to promote tourism in Yamaguchi Prefecture that served as a precursor to his later work.
I'm From Japan became Hayashi's first major serialized work. The story follows a student named Japan Hinomoto, a master of a unique martial art based on the 47 prefectures of Japan, and his classmate Tokio Abiko. The manga was first serialized in the flagship magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from September 15, 2018, to May 27, 2019. It was then transferred to the monthly magazine Saikyō Jump, where it continued from June 1, 2019, until its conclusion on April 2, 2020. Shueisha compiled the series' chapters into six tankōbon volumes, released from January 4, 2019, to May 13, 2020. The series was also published in English simultaneously with Japan on the Manga Plus platform starting in January 2019.
The success of the manga led to an anime adaptation. The I'm From Japan anime television series was produced by the studio ODDJOB and directed by Isamu Ueno, with Masato Naruse and Kōji Hashimoto handling the series composition. The anime consisted of 50 episodes and was broadcast on TV Tokyo from April 8, 2019, to March 23, 2020. The series stars Minami Takayama as the voice of the protagonist, Japan Hinomoto.
Works
- Topics: Anime overview