Hajime Isayama

Hajime Isayama was born on August 29, 1986, in Ōyama, Ōita Prefecture, Japan. He is best known as the creator of *Attack on Titan*, the dark fantasy manga that ran from 2009 to 2021 and became a global phenomenon, selling over 140 million copies worldwide by November 2023. Isayama's path into comics began with a childhood love of drawing and storytelling, but his breakthrough came when *Attack on Titan* was serialized in Kodansha's *Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine*. The series, which he wrote and illustrated, is noted for its intense, claustrophobic art style and grim, morally complex narrative. Key collaborators included his editors and the artists who adapted his work into the acclaimed anime. Isayama's signature work earned him the Kodansha Manga Award in 2011, a Harvey Award in 2014, and the Fauve Spécial award at the 50th Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2023. In our catalog, he is credited as writer, artist, inker, and colorist on 26 issues, primarily for *Attack on Titan* and a 2015 *Free Comic Book Day* tie-in. Following the series' conclusion, Isayama has remained a major figure in manga, with his work's legacy influencing a new generation of creators.