Biography
A Japanese manga artist who has sold over 250 million copies worldwide, Gosho Aoyama is best known for his Case Closed series. Born in 1963, Aoyama displayed a talent for drawing at a young age. Whilst still in elementary school he won a competition to have his artwork displayed at the Tottori Daimaru Department Store. After graduating high school, he attended Nihon University College Of Art in Tokyo, where he won a comic contest in his freshman year.
In 1987, he made his debut in the Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine, quickly followed by his first manga series Magic Kaito (who regularly appears in his later series Case Closed). The following year, he started the Yaiba series, which ran for 24 volumes between 1988 - 1993. Yaiba won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1992.
At the same time, he also worked on several single volume manga series, such as Third Baseman No. 4 and Gosho Aoyama’s Collection Of Short Stories. In 1994, Aoyama published the first in the detective series Case Closed. Serialised in Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine, it has been published ever since, amassing over 1,000 chapters collected into 106 volumes. With over 270 million copies in circulation, Case Closed is one of the bestselling manga series in history, and was awarded the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2001.
With intricate storylines, tight plotting, ingenious clues, unforeseen twists and well-developed characters, Gosho Aoyama is a leading manga artist with a fan base that spans generations.
