Masahito Soda

Masahito Soda (曽田正人, Soda Masahito^?, born June 18, 1968 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist. Soda studied at Nihon University, but left prior to graduating. He worked as an assistant for Taku Kitazaki, and debuted in 1990 with GET ROCK, published in Magazine Special.^[1] His most notable series are Firefighter! Daigo of Fire Company M and Subaru.

In 1997 Soda won the Shogakukan Manga Award for Firefighter! Daigo of Fire Company M,^[2] and in 2005 he won the Kodansha Manga Award for Capeta.^[3]

Selected works

• GET ROCK
• Shakariki! (シャカリキ!^?)
• Firefighter! Daigo of Fire Company M - published in Shonen Sunday
• Subaru (昴^?) published in Big Comic Spirits
• Capeta
• MOON　－Subaru Solitude Standing - published in Big Comic Spirits

Art Books

• Masahito Soda's Collection Fire and Forget (曽田正人作品集 FIRE AND FORGET ^?)
• SUBARU Masahito Soda Collection (SUBARU 曽田正人作画集^?)
• Capeta: The Guidebook

References

1. ^ "曽田正人". Wikipedia.org. November 10, 2007. http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9B%BD%E7%94%B0%E6%AD%A3%E4%BA%BA. 
2. ^ "小学館漫画賞：歴代受賞者" (in Japanese). Shogakukan. http://comics.shogakukan.co.jp/mangasho/rist.html. Retrieved 2007-08-19. 
3. ^ Joel Hahn. "Kodansha Manga Awards". Comic Book Awards Almanac. Archived from the original on 2007-08-16. http://web.archive.org/web/20070816031310/http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/kodansha.shtml. Retrieved 2007-08-21. 

External links

• Masahito Soda's Home Page (Japanese)
• Masahito Soda at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia

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Name	Soda, Masahito
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