Kazuki Motoyama

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Kazuki Motoyama
Kazuki Motoyama
Born April 12, 1956 (age 68)[?]
Super Mario–related role(s) Author (and recurring character) of the Kodansha's Super Mario manga and Kinoppe-chan Forever

Kazuki Motoyama (Japanese: 本山一城; real name: 本山真澄) is a manga artist who wrote and illustrated Kodansha's Super Mario manga and its unofficial spinoff Kinoppe-chan Forever. He also appeared in the stories as both narrator and character, before his avatar Mototin took that role. He often stars in 4koma related to his tiring work.

Biography

Born in Kawasaki, in the Kanagawa Prefecture, and raised in Yamato, he dropped out of Musashino Art University Junior College to become the assistant of Murakami Motoka.

In 1977 he debuted as a manganaka with the short story "Love and Mini"[1] under his real name "Motoyama Masumi". Then, after settling for the pen name "Motoyama Kazuki", he published in 1979, Kimatenai no ni Kimemaru-kun.

His early works included romantic comedies, school and sport manga for various publishers, then in 1985 he started focusing on the historical genre, a subject he excels at.

After being hospitalized with diabetes and a major surgery due to an acute myocardial infarction in the early 2010s, he moved to Nagano Prefecture to recuperate, and then back to his home prefecture.

For the Kodansha publishing company, he wrote between 1988 and 1998 the illustrated game strategies and manga of Super Mario, competing with Yukio Sawada and his Super Mario-kun series, until Nintendo pull the ComicBonBon's Super Mario manga license in 1997. Later, in the 2022, he self-published a manga series starring an original character he used in the Super Mario series: Kinoppe-chan Forever.

History

Super Mario (Kodansha manga)

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Motoyama appears as a character in his own manga, starting off as himself in a 4koma recapping how he usually works on his manga in Super Mario Land. Later, Motoyama would appear in the stories with his avatar's appaerance: Mototin, in which he looks like a chibi version of himself with spiral glasses, and a hat with a fountain pen head on top of it.

In Super Mario Land 3, he is the tennis announcer in the volume's closing chapter. He gives Mario and Peach a statue of himself valued at 100,000 yens, but the two bash it on his head, calling it "ugly".

Gallery

Trivia

  • His grandfather was the folklorist Katsuragawa Motoyama, his maternal ancestor was the agricultural scientist Enri Hayashi, and her sister Risa Motoyama became a manganaka herself, and even helped him write some 4koma for Super Mario 4-koma Daikōshin 2.
  • He has been supervising RKB Mainichi Broadcasting's Fukuoka Chronicle since October 2013. It has aired 336 episodes over the course of seven years.
  • He owns a sword mounting used by the Kuroda clan guard, valued at 4 milion yens.[2]

External links

References

  1. ^ Motoyama's incomplete bibliography on his personal site. kanbe.starfree.jp Retrieved on October 29, 2024.
  2. ^ The appraisal of the sword mounting on tv-tokyo.co.jp. Retrieved on October 29, 2024.