Jasmine Gyuh
Description
Jasmine Gyuh is a Japanese manga artist who serves as the original creator behind the anime and manga series Back Street Girls: Gokudols. The creator operates anonymously, with no public disclosure of their face, age, or gender.
Jasmine Gyuh attended Kyoto Seika University, where they studied in the Story Manga course. Following their graduation, they moved to Tokyo and became a research student at Tokyo Polytechnic University. During this time, a lecturer who was an editor for Young Magazine encouraged them to submit to the publication's rookie award, which they won. After making their professional debut, Jasmine Gyuh gained experience as an assistant to manga artist Masanao Kurihara.
The creator's first published work was a one-shot titled The Teachings of Eriko Daisensei, which appeared in Weekly Young Magazine in 2014. In January 2015, they began the irregularly serialized Jasmine's Tea Party in Young Magazine Third. The major breakthrough came in March Girls in Weekly Young Magazine. The series, which follows three yakuza gang members who are forced to undergo gender reassignment surgery and become a female idol group, became highly popular for its comedic premise.
Back Street Girls was adapted into a television anime series that aired in July 2018, produced by J.C.STAFF. A live-action film adaptation titled Back Street Girls: Gokudols premiered in Japan in February 2019, distributed by Toei. The original manga serialized from 2015 to 2018, spanning 12 volumes. Jasmine Gyuh later began a new series in Weekly Young Magazine in 2020, which concluded in 2023, running for eight volumes.
Jasmine Gyuh also operates a liquor store. The creator has cited horror manga writers Junji Ito and Kazuo Umezu, comedy manga writers Fujio F. Fujiko and Akira Toriyama, and the artwork of Takehiko Inoue as influences. Junji Ito is noted as their favorite manga writer. A distinctive artistic trait in Jasmine Gyuh's work is the frequent use of rendering a character's eye area nearly black when the character is confused or in a reactive role, obscuring their expression.
Jasmine Gyuh attended Kyoto Seika University, where they studied in the Story Manga course. Following their graduation, they moved to Tokyo and became a research student at Tokyo Polytechnic University. During this time, a lecturer who was an editor for Young Magazine encouraged them to submit to the publication's rookie award, which they won. After making their professional debut, Jasmine Gyuh gained experience as an assistant to manga artist Masanao Kurihara.
The creator's first published work was a one-shot titled The Teachings of Eriko Daisensei, which appeared in Weekly Young Magazine in 2014. In January 2015, they began the irregularly serialized Jasmine's Tea Party in Young Magazine Third. The major breakthrough came in March Girls in Weekly Young Magazine. The series, which follows three yakuza gang members who are forced to undergo gender reassignment surgery and become a female idol group, became highly popular for its comedic premise.
Back Street Girls was adapted into a television anime series that aired in July 2018, produced by J.C.STAFF. A live-action film adaptation titled Back Street Girls: Gokudols premiered in Japan in February 2019, distributed by Toei. The original manga serialized from 2015 to 2018, spanning 12 volumes. Jasmine Gyuh later began a new series in Weekly Young Magazine in 2020, which concluded in 2023, running for eight volumes.
Jasmine Gyuh also operates a liquor store. The creator has cited horror manga writers Junji Ito and Kazuo Umezu, comedy manga writers Fujio F. Fujiko and Akira Toriyama, and the artwork of Takehiko Inoue as influences. Junji Ito is noted as their favorite manga writer. A distinctive artistic trait in Jasmine Gyuh's work is the frequent use of rendering a character's eye area nearly black when the character is confused or in a reactive role, obscuring their expression.
Works
- Topics: Anime overview