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{{Short description|Japanese manga artist}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2022}}
{{Infobox comics creator
| name_nonEN    = 板垣 巴留
| nonUS         = ja
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| birth_date    = {{Birth date and age|1993|9|9}}<ref name="PassMarket"/><ref>{{cite book|title=[[Kono Manga ga Sugoi!]] 2018|date=December 9, 2017|publisher=[[Takarajimasha]]|isbn=978-4800278319}}</ref>
| birth_place   =  [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]]
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| area          = [[Manga artist]]
| alias         = 
| notable works = {{ubl|''[[Beastars]]''|''[[Sanda (manga)|Sanda]]''}}
| awards        =  {{bulleted list|[[Japan Media Arts Festival|Japan Media Arts Festival Award]]|[[Manga Taishō]]|[[Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize]]|[[Kodansha Manga Award]]}}
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|relatives=[[Keisuke Itagaki]] (father)}}

{{nihongo|'''Paru Itagaki'''|板垣 巴留|Itagaki Paru|born September 9, 1993}} is a Japanese [[manga artist]]. She is best known as the creator of the [[manga]] series ''[[Beastars]]'', for which she has won numerous awards. She is the daughter of manga artist [[Keisuke Itagaki]].

==Biography==
Paru Itagaki began painting in kindergarten, and started drawing manga in the second grade.<ref name="asahi"/> As a teenager she developed the character Legoshi, an [[anthropomorphic]] [[wolf]] who would later appear in her manga series ''[[Beastars]]''.<ref name="LeMonde"/> She cites [[List of Walt Disney Pictures films|Disney movies]] and the artists [[Nicolas de Crécy]] and [[Egon Schiele]] as among her early influences.<ref name="LeMonde"/>

She later attended [[Musashino Art University]], where she studied [[filmmaking]].<ref name="PassMarket"/> She continued to pursue manga as a hobby while in university, creating ''[[dōjinshi]]'' that she would sell at [[Dōjinshi convention|''dōjinshi'' convention]]s.<ref name="WeeklyChamp"/> After being unable to find a job in the film industry, Itagaki submitted her ''dōjinshi'' to editors at the publishing company [[Akita Shoten]], which began publishing her short story collection ''[[Beast Complex]]'' in ''[[Weekly Shōnen Champion]]'' in 2016.<ref name="WeeklyChamp"/> That same year, ''Weekly Shōnen Champion'' began serializing Itagaki's critically  and commercially acclaimed series ''[[Beastars]]''.<ref name="Graffiti"/>

In September 2019, Itagaki's autobiographical manga series ''Paruno Graffiti'' began serialization in ''[[Kiss (Japanese magazine)|Kiss]]''.<ref name="Graffiti"/> In 2021, Itagaki launched a new manga series, titled ''[[Sanda (manga)|Sanda]]'', in the 34th issue of ''[[Weekly Shōnen Champion]]'' on July 21.<ref name="Sanda">{{cite web|last1=Mateo|first1=Alex|title=Beastars' Paru Itagaki Pens New Sanda Manga|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-07-14/beastars-paru-itagaki-pens-new-sanda-manga/.175129|website=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=July 14, 2021|date=July 14, 2021}}</ref>

==Personal life==
[[File:Chicken mask Paru Itagaki.png|thumb|Paru's chicken mask]]
Itagaki is highly private about her personal life, and wears a chicken mask to obscure her face at all public appearances.<ref name="LeMonde"/> In 2018, Japanese tabloids reported that Itagaki is the daughter of [[Keisuke Itagaki]], the creator of the manga series ''[[Baki the Grappler]]''.<ref name="LeMonde"/><ref name="Otaquest"/> Itagaki confirmed these reports in a joint interview with her father in the September 2019 issue of ''Weekly Shonen Champion'', stating that she did not wish to disclose her parentage until she was established in the manga industry in order to avoid accusations of nepotism.<ref name="Otaquest"/><ref name="Natalie"/>

On September 24, 2023, Itakagi announced that she had gotten married.<ref>{{cite tweet|author=Paru Itagaki|number=1705868970015051938|user=itaparu99|script-title=ja:結婚しました！私の"ごはん日記"の、ここ3年分くらいの自炊は旦那さんが作ってくれていたものです。これからも旦那さんのご飯パワーを糧に、楽しい漫画を描いていきたいと思います。|date=September 24, 2023|language=ja}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Eisenbeis |first=Richard |date=September 27, 2023 |title=Beastars Manga Creator Paru Itagaki Gets Married |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2023-09-26/beastars-manga-creator-paru-itagaki-gets-married/.202814 |access-date=July 1, 2024 |website=Anime News Network |language=en}}</ref>

==Works==
===Serializations===
* {{Nihongo|''[[Beast Complex]]''|ビーストコンプレックス|Bīsuto Konpurekkusu}} (serialized in ''[[Weekly Shōnen Champion]]'', 2016–2019; 2021–)<ref>{{cite web |title=別チャン大リニューアルで阿部共実ら新連載！次号より山本崇一朗の新作も |url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/323470 |website=[[Comic Natalie]] |access-date=December 7, 2019 |language=ja |date=March 12, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1= Pineda |first1=Rafael Antonio |title=Beast Complex Manga, the 'Origin of BEASTARS,' Gets Mini-Series in January|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-10-08/beast-complex-manga-the-origin-of-beastars-gets-mini-series-in-january/.164968|website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=October 7, 2020 |date=October 7, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Pineda|first=Rafael Antonio|title=Beast Complex Mini-Manga Ends, Gets 2 New Volumes in April, May|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-03-22/beast-complex-mini-manga-ends-gets-2-new-volumes-in-april-may/.170901|access-date=October 14, 2021|website=[[Anime News Network]]}}</ref>
* ''[[Beastars]]'' (serialized in ''Weekly Shōnen Champion'', 2016–2020)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mateo |first1=Alex |title=Beastars Manga Ends in 3 Chapters, Anime Casts Yuuki Kaji |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-09-23/beastars-manga-ends-in-3-chapters-anime-casts-yuuki-kaji/.164311 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=December 20, 2020 |date=September 23, 2020}}</ref>
* {{Nihongo|''Paruno Graffiti''|パルノグラフィティ|Paru no Gurafiti}} (serialized in ''[[Kiss (Japanese magazine)|Kiss]]'', 2019–2020)<!-- romanization per: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000002402.000001719.html --><ref name="Graffiti"/><ref>{{cite web |last1= Pineda |first1=Rafael Antonio |title=BEASTARS' Paru Itagaki Ends Paruno Graffiti Autobiographical Manga in June |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-05-26/beastars-paru-itagaki-ends-paruno-graffiti-autobiographical-manga-in-june/.159915 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=May 25, 2020 |date=May 25, 2020}}</ref>
* {{Nihongo|''Drip Drip''|ボタボタ|Bota Bota}} (serialized in ''[[Weekly Manga Goraku]]'', 2020–2021)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pineda |first1=Rafael Antonio |title=Beastars' Paru Itagaki Launches New Short Manga in Manga Goraku Magazine |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-12-19/beastars-paru-itagaki-launches-new-short-manga-in-manga-goraku-magazine/.167574 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=December 20, 2020 |date=December 19, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Mateo |first1=Alex |title=Paru Itagaki's Bota Bota Manga Ends on February 19 |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-02-12/paru-itagaki-bota-bota-manga-ends-on-february-19/.169395 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=February 12, 2021 |date=February 12, 2021}}</ref>
* ''[[Sanda (manga)|Sanda]]'' (serialized in ''Weekly Shōnen Champion'', 2021–2024)<ref name="Sanda"/><ref>{{cite web |last=Loo |first=Egan |title=BEASTARS Creator Paru Itagaki's Sanda Manga Gets TV Anime by Science SARU |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-07-10/beastars-creator-paru-itagaki-sanda-manga-gets-tv-anime-by-science-saru/.213078 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=July 10, 2024 |date=July 10, 2024}}</ref>

===One-shots===
* {{Nihongo|''White Beard and Boyne''|白ヒゲとボイン|Shiro Hige to Boin}} (published in ''Weekly Manga Goraku'', 2018)<ref>{{cite web |title=「BEASTARS」の板垣巴留が描く初の人間マンガ、ゴラクに読切で掲載 |url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/298701 |website=[[Comic Natalie]] |access-date=December 7, 2019 |language=ja |date=September 7, 2018}}</ref>
* {{Nihongo|''Manga Noodles''|マンガ麺|Manga Men}} (published in ''[[Monthly Comic Zenon]]'', 2019)<ref>{{cite web |title=「BEASTARS」の板垣巴留＆たかし♂が麺の思い出描くグルメエッセイ、ゼノンに |url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/329290 |website=[[Comic Natalie]] |access-date=December 7, 2019 |language=ja |date=April 25, 2019}}</ref>

==Awards and nominations==
{{Awards table|4}}
|-
! rowspan="5" | 2018
| rowspan="7" |''[[Beastars]]''
| Male Readers
| ''[[Kono Manga ga Sugoi!]]''
| {{CNone|Second place}}
| 
| <ref>{{cite web |last1=Hodgkins |first1=Crystalyn |title=Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Reveals 2018's Series Ranking for Male Readers |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-12-08/kono-manga-ga-sugoi-reveals-2018-series-ranking-for-male-readers/.125015 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=December 7, 2019 |date=December 28, 2017}}</ref>
|-
| New Face Award
| [[Japan Media Arts Festival|Japan Media Arts Festival Awards]]
| rowspan=4; {{won}}
| 
| <ref>{{cite web |last1=Hodgkins |first1=Crystalyn |title=In This Corner of the World, Lu over the wall, 'Nee, Mama' Win Media Arts Awards |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-03-16/in-this-corner-of-the-world-lu-over-the-wall-nee-mama-win-media-arts-awards/.129080 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=December 7, 2019 |date=March 16, 2018}}</ref>
|-
| Grand Prize 
| [[Manga Taishō]]
|
| <ref>{{cite web |last1=Loo |first1=Egan |last2=Hodgkins |first2=Crystalyn |title=Paru Itagaki's BEASTARS Wins 11th Manga Taisho Awards |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-03-22/paru-itagaki-beastars-wins-11th-manga-taisho-awards/.129344 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=December 7, 2019}}</ref>
|-
| New Artist Prize
| [[Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize]]
| 
| <ref>{{cite web |last1=Ressler |first1=Karen |title=Golden Kamuy Wins 22nd Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize's Top Award |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-04-24/golden-kamuy-wins-22nd-tezuka-osamu-cultural-prize-top-award/.130796 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=December 7, 2019 |date=April 24, 2018}}</ref>
|-
| Best Shōnen Manga 
| [[Kodansha Manga Award]]
| 
| <ref>{{cite web|last=Sherman|first=Jennifer|title=42nd Annual Kodansha Manga Awards' Winners Announced|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-05-10/42nd-annual-kodansha-manga-awards-winners-announced/.131402|website=[[Anime News Network]]|access-date=December 7, 2019|date=May 10, 2018}}</ref>
|-
! 2020
| [[Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia|Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia]]
| [[Eisner Award]]
| rowspan="2" {{nom}}
|
| <ref>{{cite web|last=McMillan|first=Graeme|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/2020-eisner-nominees-complete-list-1297196|title=2020 Eisner Nominees: The Complete List|website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=June 4, 2020|access-date=February 21, 2021}}</ref>
|-
! 2022
| Best Comic
| [[Seiun Award]]
|
| <ref>{{Cite web |title=2022年 第53回星雲賞|url=http://www.sf-fan.gr.jp/awards/2022result.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519115408/http://www.sf-fan.gr.jp/awards/2022result.html|archive-date=May 19, 2022|access-date=August 17, 2023|website=www.sf-fan.gr.jp|language=ja}}</ref>

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==References==
{{reflist|refs=

<ref name="asahi">{{cite web |last1=Kumazawa |first1=Shiho |title=大ヒット漫画『BEASTARS』 着想を得たのは"小学2年生"の時だった |url=https://dot.asahi.com/aera/2018091200017.html?page=1 |website=Aeradot |access-date=December 7, 2019 |language=ja |date=September 14, 2018}}</ref>

<ref name="Graffiti">{{cite web |last1=Pineda |first1=Rafael Antonio |title=BEASTARS' Paru Itagaki Launches Autobiographical Manga |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-08-23/beastars-paru-itagaki-launches-autobiographical-manga/.150338 |website=[[Anime News Network]] |access-date=December 7, 2019 |date=August 23, 2019}}</ref>

<ref name="LeMonde">{{cite web |last1=Croquet |first1=Pauline |title=Avec le manga Beastars, le règne animal s'invite dans un lycée |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/les-enfants-akira/article/2019/04/07/avec-le-manga-beastars-le-regne-animal-s-invite-dans-un-lycee_5446908_5191101.html |website=[[Le Monde]] |access-date=December 7, 2019 |language=fr |date=April 7, 2019}}</ref>

<ref name="Natalie">{{cite web |title=「バキ道」板垣恵介×「BEASTARS」板垣巴留の親子対談が週チャンに掲載 |url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/348016 |website=[[Comic Natalie]] |access-date=December 7, 2019 |language=ja |date=September 19, 2019}}</ref>

<ref name="Otaquest">{{cite web |last1=Parker-Dalton |first1=Jacob |title=Paru Itagaki's Father is Indeed Keisuke Itagaki, New Interview Reveals |url=https://www.otaquest.com/paru-itagaki-father-is-keisuke-itagaki/ |website=Otaquest |access-date=December 7, 2019 |date=September 19, 2019}}</ref>

<ref name="PassMarket">{{cite web |title=西村ツチカ×板垣巴留×新宅広二 「動物の擬人化を語る」 |url=https://passmarket.yahoo.co.jp/event/show/detail/018stmz9gduu.html |website=PassMarket |access-date=December 7, 2019 |language=ja}}</ref>

<ref name="WeeklyChamp">{{cite web |title=板垣恵介先生×板垣巴留先生 対談 レジェンドインタビュー |url=https://content.weeklychamp.com/interview/page38.html |website=[[Weekly Shōnen Champion]] |access-date=December 7, 2019 |language=ja |date=October 3, 2019}}</ref>

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==External links==
* {{Twitter|itaparu99}}
* [https://tentenparuparu.tumblr.com/ Paru Itagaki] on [[Tumblr]]
* {{Anime News Network|people|180254}}

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[[Category:Winner of Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize (New Artist Prize)]]
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[[Category:Japanese female comics writers]]