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{{short description|Japanese manga artist}}
{{Infobox comics creator
| name_nonEN    = 石川 雅之
| nonUS         = ja
| birth_name    = 
| birth_date    = {{Birth date and age|1974|10|23}}
| birth_place   = [[Sakai]], [[Osaka Prefecture]]
| death_date    = 
| death_place   =
| area          = 
| alias         =  	
| notable works = ''[[Moyasimon]]''
| awards        = 32nd [[Kodansha Manga Award]] General category (2008)<br/>[[Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize]] (2008)
| manga         = Yes
| website       = http://mmmasayuki.la.coocan.jp
}}
{{Nihongo|'''Masayuki Ishikawa'''|石川 雅之|Ishikawa Masayuki|lead=yes|extra=born 23 October 1974 in [[Sakai]], [[Osaka Prefecture]]}} is a Japanese [[manga artist]]. He is best known for ''[[Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture]]'' and ''[[Maria the Virgin Witch]]''; both of which were adapted into [[anime]] television series.<ref name="Moyasimon Staff">{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-05-07/moyashimon-anime-staff-broadcast-date-confirmed|title=''Moyashimon'' Anime Staff, Broadcast Date Confirmed|publisher=[[Anime News Network]]|date=May 5, 2007|access-date=July 9, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2012-07-19/crunchyroll-to-simulcast-moyashimon-returns-this-summer|title=Crunchyroll To Simulcast ''Moyashimon Returns'' This Summer|publisher=[[Anime News Network]]|date=July 19, 2012|access-date=July 9, 2018}}</ref><ref name=ann2>{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-11-30/maria-the-virgin-witch-anime-unveils-video-more-cast-theme-songs/.81590|date=November 30, 2014|title=Maria the Virgin Witch Anime Unveils Video, More Cast, Theme Songs|publisher=Anime News Network|access-date=July 9, 2018}}</ref>

==Career==
He made his debut as a manga artist in 1997 with the short story ''Nippon Seifu Chokkatsu Kidō Sentai Kōmuin V'' in the magazine ''[[Bessatsu Young Magazine]]''. In 1999 he won the [[Tetsuya Chiba Award]] for the short story ''Kami no Sumu Yama'', which was later collected in the collection ''Hitokiri Ryōma''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Inc|first=VOYAGE MARKETING|title=石川 雅之（漫画家）|url=https://mangapedia.com/%E7%9F%B3%E5%B7%9D%E9%9B%85%E4%B9%8B-cjgw77m57|access-date=2021-09-05|website=マンガペディア|language=ja}}</ref>

His commercial and critical breakthrough came in 2004 with the series ''[[Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture]]'', which was serialized in the magazine ''[[Evening (magazine)|Evening]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=株式会社ローソンエンタテインメント|title=石川雅之｜HMV&BOOKS online|url=https://www.hmv.co.jp/artist_%E7%9F%B3%E5%B7%9D%E9%9B%85%E4%B9%8B_000000000258960/|access-date=2021-09-05|website=HMV&BOOKS online|language=ja}}</ref> The series won him the [[Kodansha Manga Award]] and the [[Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize]], both in 2008, as well as the [[Seiun Award]] in 2015.

Since 2015 he works on the series ''Madowanai Hoshi'' for the magazine ''[[Morning (magazine)|Morning]]'', set in a world devastated by [[climate change]], in which humanity is forced to live in a dome.

==Works==
*''Nippon Seifu Chokkatsu Kidō Sentai Kōmuin V'' (日本政府直轄機動戦隊コームインV, 1997)
*''Kataribe'' (カタリベ, 1998–1999)
*''Kami no Sumu Yama'' (神の棲む山, 1999)
*''Shūkan Ishikawa Masayuki'' (週刊石川雅之, 2002–2003)
**''Kanojo no Kokuhaku'' (彼女の告白)
*''[[Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture]]'' (もやしもん, ''Moyashimon'', 2004–2014)
*''Hitokiri Ryōma'' (人斬り龍馬, 2005)
*''[[Maria the Virgin Witch]]'' (純潔のマリア, ''Junketsu no Maria'', 2008–2013)
*''Junketsu no Maria Exhibition'' (純潔のマリア exhibition, 2014)
*''Teşekkür ederim'' (2014)
*''Madowanai Hoshi'' (惑わない星, since 2015)

==References==
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==External links==
*{{official website|http://mmmasayuki.la.coocan.jp}} {{in lang|ja}}

{{Kodansha Manga Award - General}}
{{Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize}}
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[[Category:Manga artists from Osaka Prefecture]]
[[Category:People from Sakai, Osaka]]
[[Category:Winner of Kodansha Manga Award (General)]]
[[Category:1974 births]]
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