Hitoshi Iwaaki
is a Japanese manga artist, whose works include the science-fiction/horror series Parasyte. The Mixx editions of Parasyte romanize his name as "Hitosi Iwaaki", while the Del Rey Manga editions use "Hitoshi Iwaaki". Career During high school, he was reading a lot of manga by Osamu Tezuka, which inspired him to begin drawing manga himself. He began working as an assistant for manga artist Kazuo Kamimura in 1984. In 1985, his short story "Gomi no Umi" won the newcomer award Tetsuya Chiba Award and was published in a special edition of Morning magazine. Since then, he has worked mainly for Kodansha, especially Afternoon magazine. In 1993, Iwaaki received the Kodansha Manga Award for Parasyte. In 2010, Historie took the grand prize in the manga division of the Japan Media Arts Festival. Historie also earned him the 2012 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Grand Prize. Iwaaki won the 2020 Saito Takao Award for his work on Reiri. Works "Gomi no Umi (ゴミの海, Morning Open, 1985) Fuuko no Iru Mise (4 volumes, Morning 1986–1988) Hone no Oto (1 volume, short stories, Morning 1990, large format edition, 2003) Parasyte (10 volumes, Afternoon 1990–1995, Perfect Edition: 8 volumes, 2003) First published in English by Mixx (Tokyopop),