Shiro Amano

is a Japanese manga artist who has worked on several projects, including his adaptation on the popular Kingdom Hearts series.

Career

Amano worked on the manga adaptation of the Legend of Mana video game series. It was serialized from 2000 to 2002 and published in five volumes.

Amano also worked on the Kingdom Hearts manga adaptations, following the events that took place in the video games with differences to account for the loss of interactivity a video game provides. The manga was originally serialized in Japan by Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan and eventually released in tankōbon format. The first tankōbon was released in Japan in October 2003. The manga was released in the US by Tokyopop two years later in October 2005. Yen Press now holds the rights to publish the books for the USA market. The first series, Kingdom Hearts, consists of four volumes, while the second series, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, has two volumes. The third series, Kingdom Hearts II, has ten volumes and went on hiatus between the fifth and sixth volumes while Amano published a fourth series, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, which had five volumes. A fifth series, Kingdom Hearts III, began publication in 2019 and currently has 3 volumes. The games have also been adapted as a light novel series, written by Tomoco Kanemaki and illustrated by Shiro Amano. Like the manga series, it is divided into separate series based on the games.

Works + List of manga and novel works Title Year Notes Refs 2007 Published in 1 volume Kingdom Hearts manga 2003 (vol.) Serialized in Monthly Shōnen GanganPublished in Bros. Comics, 4 volumes Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories manga Published in Gangan Comics, 2 volumes Kingdom Hearts II manga Published in Gangan Comics, 10 volumes Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days manga Published in Gangan Comics, 5 volumes Kingdom Hearts III manga Published in Gangan Comics, 4 volumes Scratch! Published by Magi-Cu Comics, 1 volume The World Ends with You manga Serialized in Monthly Shōnen Gangan as 2 one-shot chapters. Neo: The World Ends with You manga 2021Serialized in Monthly Shōnen Gangan as one-shot chapter. Breath of Fire IV novelIllustrator Kingdom Hearts novel seriesIllustrator + List of crew roles in video games Year Title Crew role