Sui Ishida


Sui Ishida is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for his dark fantasy series Tokyo Ghoul, a story about a young man named Kaneki Ken who gets transformed into a ghoul after encountering one.

Career

Tokyo Ghoul started as a series of one-shots in 2010, one of which garnered second place at the Weekly Young Jump 113th Grand Prix. The series then ran from 2011 to 2014 in Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump magazine, and was later adapted into a light novel and anime series in 2014. The manga was also translated into English where it topped The New York Times Best Seller list in 2015. A prequel titled Tokyo Ghoul was briefly serialized digitally on Jump Live in 2013. In 2014, he began a sequel titled . As of January 2018, Tokyo Ghoul and its sequel have over 34 million collected volumes in circulation. In 2017, a live-action adaptation of Tokyo Ghoul was released theatrically in Japan. In March 2018, an anime adaptation for Tokyo Ghoul:re began to air with a second cour slated for an October release.
In 2016, Ishida created a 69-page storyboard of a manga chapter based on Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter × Hunter series. Depicting the past of the character Hisoka, the storyboard was released digitally via Shonen Jump+ on June 2, 2016.

Works

Manga

Light novels

Video games

Awards and nominations