Satoshi Miyakawa
Description
Satoshi Miyakawa is a Japanese manga writer and original creator born in 1978 in Gifu Prefecture. He graduated from the law faculty of Nanzan University. Before committing to a career in manga, Miyakawa managed a local cram school in his hometown. He moved to Tokyo in 2012 to pursue his ambition and enrolled in a manga workshop. His professional debut came in 2013 with the series Tokyo Hyakki Yagyou in the magazine Monthly Comic @Bunch.
Miyakawa is best known as the writer of the science fiction comedy manga Space Battleship Tiramisu. The story follows Subaru Ichinose, a genius young pilot who struggles with communal living aboard the titular warship and prefers to isolate himself in the cockpit of his personal mobile weapon, Durandal. The series was illustrated by artist Kei Itō. It began serialization on Shinchosha’s online platform Kurage Bunch in October 2015 and concluded in February 2020, spanning ten collected volumes.
The success of the manga led to a multimedia expansion. An anime television series adaptation, produced by the studio Gonzo, premiered in April 2018. The anime was directed by Hiroshi Ikehata with series composition by Yū Satō. The broadcast was later followed by a second season, subtitled Zwei, which aired from October to December 2018, bringing the total number of episodes across both seasons to twenty-six. Beyond animation, Space Battleship Tiramisu was also adapted into a stage play, with the first production running in Tokyo and Osaka in mid-2018 and subsequent stage sequels following in later years. The manga itself was recognized with an Excellence Award in the Manga Division at the 22nd Japan Media Arts Festival in 2019.
Miyakawa’s work extends beyond this single franchise. He is also the author of a notable autobiographical essay manga, When I Lost My Mother, I Thought I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes, which was serialized in 2013. This work was adapted into a stage play in 2015 and a live-action film in 2019. His other credits include the essays Passionate Ardor for Jounetsu Tairiku and I’m Pushed Around by My Health. In the realm of superhero fiction, he has served as the original concept writer for the comedy manga One Operation Joker, in which the supervillain Joker must raise a baby version of Batman, and Superman vs. Rice, which features Superman discovering Japanese cuisine.
Miyakawa is best known as the writer of the science fiction comedy manga Space Battleship Tiramisu. The story follows Subaru Ichinose, a genius young pilot who struggles with communal living aboard the titular warship and prefers to isolate himself in the cockpit of his personal mobile weapon, Durandal. The series was illustrated by artist Kei Itō. It began serialization on Shinchosha’s online platform Kurage Bunch in October 2015 and concluded in February 2020, spanning ten collected volumes.
The success of the manga led to a multimedia expansion. An anime television series adaptation, produced by the studio Gonzo, premiered in April 2018. The anime was directed by Hiroshi Ikehata with series composition by Yū Satō. The broadcast was later followed by a second season, subtitled Zwei, which aired from October to December 2018, bringing the total number of episodes across both seasons to twenty-six. Beyond animation, Space Battleship Tiramisu was also adapted into a stage play, with the first production running in Tokyo and Osaka in mid-2018 and subsequent stage sequels following in later years. The manga itself was recognized with an Excellence Award in the Manga Division at the 22nd Japan Media Arts Festival in 2019.
Miyakawa’s work extends beyond this single franchise. He is also the author of a notable autobiographical essay manga, When I Lost My Mother, I Thought I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes, which was serialized in 2013. This work was adapted into a stage play in 2015 and a live-action film in 2019. His other credits include the essays Passionate Ardor for Jounetsu Tairiku and I’m Pushed Around by My Health. In the realm of superhero fiction, he has served as the original concept writer for the comedy manga One Operation Joker, in which the supervillain Joker must raise a baby version of Batman, and Superman vs. Rice, which features Superman discovering Japanese cuisine.
Works
- Topics: Anime overview
- Topics: Anime overview