He was also well known as a contributor to the Chunichi Shimbun where he illustrated under the pen name Yumi Hotta ( ほったゆみ, Hotta Yumi ).Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S. Hotta's husband is Kiyonari Hotta ( 堀田清成, Hotta Kiyonari ), another manga artist known for manga about horse-racing. She also had a short manga series Yūto ( ユート) about long track speed skating that ran in Weekly Shōnen Jump in 2005. She won the 2000 Shogakukan Manga Award and the 2003 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize for Hikaru no Go. She later worked with Takeshi Obata (the illustrator) and Yukari Umezawa (5- Dan, the supervisor) in the creation of Hikaru no Go. 5: Start Yumi Hotta From 7.99 6 Hikaru no Go, Vol. 4: Divine Illusions Yumi Hotta From 6.89 5 Hikaru no Go, Vol. She thought that it might be fun to create a manga based on this traditional board game, and began the work under the title of Nine Stars ( 九つの星, Kokonotsu no Hoshi ), named for the nine 'star points' on a go board. 1: Descent of the Go Master Yumi Hotta Out of Stock 2 u001au001au001au001au001a 2u001au001au001a Yumi Hotta Out of Stock 3 Hikaru No Go, Volume 3 Yumi Hotta From 9.29 4 Hikaru no Go, Vol. The idea behind Hikaru no Go began when Yumi Hotta played a pick-up game of go with her father-in-law. Hotta is best known as the author of the best-selling manga and anime series Hikaru no Go, which is widely credited for the late 90s-2000s boom of the game of go in Japan.

Yumi Hotta ( 堀田由美, Hotta Yumi, most often written as ほったゆみ, born October 15, 1957) is a Japanese manga artist.

45th Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga - Hikaru no Go

Hikaru no Go, Vol. 1 by Yumi Hotta