Tsutomu Nihei

Tsutomu Nihei

Born 1971 Fukushima 52 series 536 issues

1 award

Tsutomu Nihei is a Japanese manga artist known for large-scale cyberpunk science fiction. He debuted with Blame!, a nearly wordless series set within a vast megastructure, which ran in Monthly Afternoon beginning in 1997. His subsequent series Knights of Sidonia launched in Afternoon in 2009 and won the Kodansha Manga Award in 2015. Nihei received the Inkpot Award at San Diego Comic-Con in 2016.

Name

Tsutomu Nihei

Issues

536

Series

52

Collected Editions

1

International Editions

32

Awards

Inkpot Award (2016)

Also Known As

弐瓶勉

Gender

Male

Birth Date

February 26, 1971

Birth Place

Fukushima

Country

Japan

Links

www.aposimz.com/index2.shtml

Series

Monthly Shonen Sirius

Monthly Shonen Sirius (2005)

252 issues

Ōyukiumi no Kaina

Ōyukiumi no Kaina (2022)

4 issues

Wolverine: Snikt!

Wolverine: Snikt! (2023)

1 issue

Abara: Master Edition

Abara: Master Edition (2022)

1 issue

Aposimz

Aposimz (2018)

Éditions Glénat

9 issues

APOSIMZ

APOSIMZ (2018)

Kodansha Comics USA

9 issues

Ningyō no Kuni

Ningyō no Kuni (2017)

9 issues

Aposimz: Tierra de Glenes

Aposimz: Tierra de Glenes (2020)

Editorial Panini México

8 issues

Aposimz

Aposimz (2018)

9 issues

Knights of Sidonia

Knights of Sidonia (2017)

15 issues

Issues

Issue #4

#4

Issue #4

Kaina of the Great Snow Sea (2024)

Volume 5

#5

Volume 5

Tower Dungeon (2024)

Sep 09, 2025

Vol. 2

#2

Vol. 2

Tower Dungeon (2025)

Sep 16, 2025

Vol. 1

#1

Vol. 1

Tower Dungeon (2025)

Jul 15, 2025

Tower Dungeon Preview; Issak Omnibus Preview

#1

Tower Dungeon Preview; Issak Omnibus Preview

Issak / Tower Dungeon (2025)

May 03, 2025

Volume 4

#4

Volume 4

Tower Dungeon (2024)

Mar 07, 2025

No. 3, 2025

#237

No. 3, 2025

Monthly Shonen Sirius (2005)

Jan 24, 2025

Volume 3

#3

Volume 3

Kaina of the Great Snow Sea (2024)

Oct 22, 2024

Volume 3

#3

Volume 3

Tower Dungeon (2024)

Oct 08, 2024

Volume 4

#4

Volume 4

Ōyukiumi no Kaina (2022)

Oct 08, 2024

Frequent collaborators

Riichi Ueshiba

Riichi Ueshiba

Hitoshi Ashinano

Hitoshi Ashinano

Kimura Kon

Kimura Kon

Shimoku Kio

Shimoku Kio

Hiroyuki Utatane

Hiroyuki Utatane

Shinofusa Rokuro

Shinofusa Rokuro

Komai Yuu

Komai Yuu

Asa Higuchi

Asa Higuchi

Masashi Ogawa

Masashi Ogawa

Kosuke Fujishima

Kosuke Fujishima

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