# Posuka Demizu

Posuka Demizu (Japanese: 出水 ぽすか, Hepburn: Demizu Posuka, born 17 January 1988) is a Japanese manga artist, illustrator and designer. She is particularly known for having drawn The Promised Neverland manga series.
She debuted as a manga artist with the 2013 CoroCoro Comic series Oreca Monsters Adventure Retsuden. A collection of illustrations, The Art of Posuka Demizu Pone and Postcard Planet, were released in 2016 and 2021 by PIE International.

## Biography

Posuka Demizu was born on 17 January 1988, and lives in Tokyo, Japan. She emerged on the manga scene in 2008 with a mini-series for the monthly manga magazine CoroCoro Comic. She has worked on a wide range of projects with children's magazines and video game companies. Notably, she has worked with the animation studio J.C.Staff on the series The Pet Girl of Sakurasou and illustrated a manga series titled Oreca Monsters Adventure Retsuden on the CoroCoro Comic magazine based on the popular card game Oreca Battle. She has also published several works on the artists' website Pixiv.
Beginning in 2016, Demizu collaborated with author Kaiu Shirai on The Promised Neverland. The series began in Weekly Shōnen Jump's 35th issue on 1 August 2016, published by Shueisha, and ended in the magazine's 28th issue on 15 June 2020. It followed Emma and her siblings who try to escape the orphanage they grew up in after they find out the unsettling truth behind it. Originally, Shirai planned to write and draw, but his editor felt like Shirai’s style ‘didn’t do the script justice’ and that it would be too hard for Shirai to keep up the quality of both. As a result of this, Demizu joined the project. Shirai had seen Demizu’s art before and enjoyed it, but before starting the series they created a one-shot called Poppy's Wish. The outcome was better than Shirai originally imagined. On 3 September 2021, Kaiu Shirai x Posuka Demizu: Beyond The Promised Neverland was published in Japan, which included works in combination between the two artists.
A collaborative exhibition「MIROIRS – Manga meets CHANEL」 by Posuka Demizu, Kaiu Shirai and Chanel was held at Chanel Nexus Hall Ginza, Chūō, Tokyo, from 28 April to 4 June 2021. The manga Miroirs, written and illustrated by the duo, was inspired by the Chanel brand and was published by Shueisha on 30 April 2021. In this exhibition, scenes from Miroirs are exhibited alongside precious works from Chanel.
In 2022, Posuka Demizu worked on the character design of the tactical hero summoning RPG mobile game, titled, unVEIL the world. The game will be released for iOS and Android and is produced by Shueisha Games and NetEase Games. In November 2022, it was announced that Posuka Demizu handled the character design and the concept art of the Dragons of Wonderhatch series on Disney+.
In May 2023, it was announced that Demizu would collaborate with Homura Kawamoto and Hikaru Muno to illustrate the manga adaptation of Takara Tomy's Beyblade X project. The manga started its serialization in Shogakukan's Monthly CoroCoro Comic manga magazine on 15 June 2023. In December 2023, It was announced that Demizu designed the monsters for Konami's digital card game, titled, Ore'n. The game will debut for iOS, Android, PC, and browsers in 2024.

## Influences

Posuka Demizu commented that she was influenced by many illustrators and manga artists including, Yasushi Nirasawa, Naohisa Inoue, Yutaka Ohno, Takayuki Sakai; and Makoto Hijioka with Kotone Yumiya for manga artists. She also stated that her next titles will have gotten the most influence from Kaiu Shirai.
She also mentioned Final Fantasy series and Oreca Battle as a source of influences for her art and own signature style.

## Works
### Manga

| Title | Year | Notes |
| The Promised Neverland | 2016–2020 | Serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump by Shueisha, collected into 20 volumes. |
| Miroirs | 2021 | Collected into a single volume by Shueisha. |
| Beyblade X | 2023–present | Serialized in Monthly CoroCoro Comic by Shogakukan. |

### One-shots

| Title | Year | Notes |
| Poppy's Wish | 2016 | Published in Shōnen Jump+ by Shueisha, collected into a single volume. |
| Spirit Photographer Saburo Kono | 2020 | Published in Weekly Shōnen Jump by Shueisha, collected into a single volume. |
| Dreams Come True | 2020 | Spin-off of The Promised Neverland, published in the art exhibition of the series at the Mori Art Museum in Roppongi from December 2020, to January 2021, by Shueisha. It was collected into a single volume. |
| We Were Born | 2021 | Published in Weekly Shōnen Jump by Shueisha, collected into a single volume. |
| DC3 | 2021 | Published in Weekly Shōnen Jump by Shueisha, collected into a single volume. |
| Kaiu Shirai x Posuka Demizu: Beyond The Promised Neverland | 2021 | Collected volume of Demizu's one-shots with Kaiu Shirai, published by Shueisha. |
| Cool Shock Old B.T. | 2021 | Published in Ultra Jump by Shueisha. |
| Chicken Survivor | 2022 | Published in Shōnen Jump+ by Shueisha. |
| Naka no Hito | 2022 | Published in Jump GIGA Magazine by Shueisha. |

### Light novels

| Title | Year | Notes |
| Kirugumi | 2013–2014 | Illustration artist, published by Shogakukan. |
| Real Cedro Investigation File Shibuya Hen Chase down the fugitive! | 2022 | Illustration artist, published by Shogakukan. |
| Almark Admission to Magic Academy | 2022 | Illustration artist, published by Kadokawa. |

### Art books

| Title | Year | Notes |
| The Art of Posuka Demizu - Pone | 2016 | Published by PIE International. |
| The Promised Neverland: Art Book World | 2020 | Published by Shueisha. |
| The Art of Posuka Demizu - Postcard Planet | 2021 | Published by PIE International. |

### Other works

* Character designer and concept artist for Dragons of Wonderhatch.
* Character designer for the smartphone game unVEIL the world.
* Character designer for the digital card game Ore'n.
* Illustrator for the Japanese poster of Dune.
* Cover illustration for the women's fashion magazine Spur.
* Participated in animation production of The Pet Girl of Sakurasou (design).
* Illustrator for the Pokémon, Wixoss, Duel Masters Trading Card Games.
* Illustrator for the manga version of Animal Kaiser Evolution, Great Animal Kaiser, and Strong Animal Kaiser Evolution.
* Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (機動戦士ガンダム 水星の魔女, Kidō Senshi Gandamu: Suisei no Majo) (2022) - End card (episode 7).
* Illustrator for the music video of "Bansanka" by Tuki.

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Nominee | Result |
| 2012 | Glico Pocky | Excellence Award | Posuka Demizu | Won |
| 2016 | Mandō Kobayashi Manga Award | New Serialization Award | The Promised Neverland | Won |
| 2017 | Mandō Kobayashi Manga Award | Manga Grand Prix | The Promised Neverland | Won |
| 2017 | 1st Annual Tsutaya Comic Award | Next Break Division | The Promised Neverland | Won |
| 2017 | Manga Shimbun Taishō | Grand Prix | The Promised Neverland | Won |
| 2017 | 10th Manga Taishō | Manga Taishō | The Promised Neverland | Nominated |
| 2017 | 3rd Next Manga Awards | Comics Division | The Promised Neverland | 2nd place |
| 2018 | 63rd Shogakukan Manga Award | Best Shōnen Manga | The Promised Neverland | Won |
| 2018 | 22nd Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize | Cultural Prize | The Promised Neverland | Nominated |
| 2018 | 11th Manga Taishō | Manga Taishō | The Promised Neverland | Nominated |
| 2018 | 24th Salón del Manga de Barcelona | Best Shōnen Manga | The Promised Neverland | Nominated |
| 2018 | 2nd Annual Tsutaya Comic Award | All-Time Best | The Promised Neverland | 3rd place |
| 2018 | 21st Japan Media Arts Festival | Manga Division | The Promised Neverland | Jury Selections |
| 2018 | French 12th ACBD's Prix Asie de la Critique 2018 | Manga Category | The Promised Neverland | Jury Selections |
| 2018 | Kono Manga ga Sugoi! | Male Readers | The Promised Neverland | Won |
| 2018 | Manga News Awards | Shōnen Tournament 2018 | The Promised Neverland | Won |
| 2018 | 2018 Google Play Awards | User Voting Excellence Award | The Promised Neverland | Won |
| 2018 | Ridibooks Comic Award | Next Trending Manga Award | The Promised Neverland | Won |
| 2019 | French Babelio Readers' Awards | Best Manga Series | The Promised Neverland | Won |
| 2019 | 2019 Mangawa Awards | Best Shōnen Manga | The Promised Neverland | Won |
| 2019 | French Manga Prix | Best Manga Series | The Promised Neverland | Won |
| 2019 | 23rd Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize | Cultural Prize | The Promised Neverland | Nominated |
| 2019 | Geeks d'Ouro [pt] | Best Manga Series | The Promised Neverland | Nominated |
| 2019 | French Konishi Prize | Best Translated Manga | The Promised Neverland | Nominated |
| 2019 | Ridibooks Comic Award | Grand Prize | The Promised Neverland | Won |
| 2019 | Piccoma Award | Luna Prize | The Promised Neverland | Won |
| 2019 | Japan Expo Awards | Daruma for Best New Series | The Promised Neverland | Won |
| 2019 | Japan Expo Awards | Daruma for Best Screenplay of the Year | The Promised Neverland | Won |
| 2019 | 25th Salón del Manga de Barcelona | Best Shōnen Manga | The Promised Neverland | Won |
| 2020 | Lucca Comics & Games | Amazon Comics Award | The Promised Neverland | Won |
| 2020 | French "Les Mordus du Manga" Awards | Grand Prize | The Promised Neverland | Won |
| 2020 | Anime Click Award | Best New Manga | The Promised Neverland | Won |
| 2020 | Anime Click Award | Most Wanted Manga | The Promised Neverland | Won |
| 2020 | 20th Sense of Gender Awards | Grand Prize | The Promised Neverland | Won |
| 2020 | 3rd Saito Takao Award | Grand Prize | The Promised Neverland | Nominated |
| 2021 | Geeks d'Ouro | Best Translated Manga | The Promised Neverland | Nominated |
| 2021 | 25th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize | Cultural Prize | The Promised Neverland | Nominated |
| 2021 | 52nd Seiun Awards | Best Comic | The Promised Neverland | Nominated |