Boichi

**Korean**

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Mujik Park, more known as "Bochi," is the illustrator of **Super String: Marco Polo's Travel to Multiverse**. He is a korean manga artist and is famous in illustrating Dr. Stone, Sun-ken Rock, and Origin.

## Biography Summary

There isn't too much info of Boichi. It was said that he wanted to be a manga artist from his childhood days. Which is why Boichi majored in physics in college as preparation to draw science fiction works, and in addition to learn technology of performance and imaging. It was also said that his academics were in the top ranks, as he said he was once offered a master's program. He went on to graduate school to major in image technology. In 1993, while still enrolled, Boichi debuted in a Korean girls manhwa magazine. Since then, he gained popularity releasing a number of works and publishing books on how to draw manga targeting a wide range of readers.

Supposedly, he holds the record of being the only male member of the Korean Women Cartoonists Association during the 1990s.

## Career Background

Mainly active in Japan since 2002. In Japan, he drew adult comics under the pen name Boichi . His illustrations were apparently looked down upon in Korea, which has a very strong dual consciousness about sex. In other words, it is not uncommon for even the public, who sometimes strongly advocate for sexual freedom, to think that creating adult content is something that should be despised.

In 2004 he transitioned into the world of Japanese manga. His "Ultimate Space Emperor Caesar", serialized in Monthly Comic Gum, was his first tankōbon in Japan. In 2005, 9 out of 11 of Boichi's hentai one-shot serialized in the Comic Aun were reunited under the volume titled Lovers in Winter. In 2006, he released two science fiction one-shot, "Hotel" and "Present" which, in 2008, were compiled in a volume titled Hotel along the other one-shots "It was all for the tuna", "Stephanos" and "Diadem".

He expressed his sentiment towards the Vietnam War and apologize for Korea’s actions during the war, Sun-Ken Rock volume 2′s royalties were donated to the Humanitarian Services for Children of Vietnam (HSCV). He asked Korean manga artists to contribute towards drawing a support page for the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, giving the royalties from the proceeding to the Red Cross. He also donated the money he planned to use to buy a new car towards helping tsunami victims.

In 2019, Boichi received two awards for Dr. Stone for the Shōnen category, respectively, "Origin" for the Best Manga category. Since 2020, Boichi is also doing the artwork for manga adaptation of One Piece novel A titled One Piece episode A.

### Awards

* **Gran Guinigi 2011** – Best Short Story for *It was all for the tuna*, in *Hotel* (Panini Comics)
* **Shogakukan Manga Awards** **2019** – Shōnen Category for *Dr. Stone* (Shueisha)
* **Japan Media Arts Festival 2019** – Manga Grand Prize for *Origin* (Kodansha)

## Controversey

Apparently, Boichi has many controversies only found in the Korean wiki, "Namu." To the point that apparently, Korean readers would protest against his works. It seems that it consists of topics related to manhwa, principlism, anit-Korean topics, etc.

## Superstring Work

### Super String: Marco Polo's Travel to Multiverse (Webtoon)

When it was revealed that Boichi was the illustrator, there were mixed reception from Korea. Such as dislike of his art style, specifically how he draws female characters.

## Trivia

* He used to run a cafe and blog on Naver, but it is now closed.
* His art style has mixed reception from Korea. They recognize the high qualitiy and use of technique in his illustrations but the look is "uncanny." His style of drawing male characters are fine but it was mainly for female characters as they look uncanny. With the same face, very large eyes, and small mouth

## References

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boichi
2. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/%EB%B0%95%EB%AC%B4%EC%A7%81
3. ↑ Won't add of his works due to too many
4. ↑ Won't add of his works due to too many
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boichi#Biography
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 https://namu.wiki/w/%EB%B0%95%EB%AC%B4%EC%A7%81#s-2
7. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/%EB%B0%95%EB%AC%B4%EC%A7%81#s-1
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boichi#Manga\_career
9. ↑ https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-04-24/dr-stone-boichi-to-draw-manga-adaptation-of-one-piece-ace-story-novels/.158916
10. ↑ https://boundingintocomics.com/2020/09/25/dr-stone-artist-boichi-launches-one-piece-manga-adaptation-of-ace-light-night-novels/
11. ↑ https://lucca2011.luccacomicsandgames.com/index.php?id=648
12. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20190122232714/https://www.shogakukan.co.jp/sites/default/files/manual/20190121.pdf
13. ↑ https://www.otaquest.com/japan-media-arts-festival-2019/
14. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/%EB%B0%95%EB%AC%B4%EC%A7%81/%EB%85%BC%EB%9E%80%20%EB%B0%8F%20%EC%82%AC%EA%B1%B4%EC%82%AC%EA%B3%A0
15. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%8A%88%ED%8D%BC%EC%8A%A4%ED%8A%B8%EB%A7%81%20-%EC%9D%B4%EC%84%B8%EA%B3%84%20%EA%B2%AC%EB%AC%B8%EB%A1%9D-#s-5.2.2
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 https://namu.wiki/w/%EB%B0%95%EB%AC%B4%EC%A7%81#s-4