is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known for the manga Those Who Hunt Elves, which was adapted as an anime series. His works Those Who Hunt Elves, Dokkoida?!, Go West!, and Hikkatsu! Strike a Blow to Vivify have been licensed in English.
Yagami's works are predominantly comedy shōnen manga with science fiction or high fantasy settings—for example, Dokkoida?! is a superhero parody series and Go West! a western parody. Many feature protagonists that use martial arts, usually some form of karate, such as Junpei in Those Who Hunt Elves and Shota in Hikkatsu! Strike a Blow to Vivify). Yagami himself is a karate aficionado, and is a member of the Kendokai Karate-do. Most of his works are published by MediaWorks and serialized in their Dengeki Comic Gao! magazine.
Works Manga Title Serialized in # Volumes Years Notes Those Who Hunt Elves (Erufu wo karu mono-tachi) Dengeki Comic Gao! 21 1994–2002 Adapted as an anime by Group TAC. Published in English by ADV Manga. Concerning That Adventurer Kiken (Sono bōkensha Kiken ni tsuki) Dengeki Comic Gao! 1 1997 Short story collection Yagamiland Daily Special (Higawari Yagami-rando) Dengeki Comic Gao! 1 1998 Short story collection Dokkoida?! (Sumeba miyako no kosumosu-sō · suttoko taisen dokkoidā) Dengeki AniMaga (2000–2001)Dengeki Comic Gao! (2001–2004) 4 2000–2004 Written by Taro Achi, adapting the light novels. Adapted as an anime by Ufotable. Published in English by CMX. Go West! Dengeki Comic Gao! 4 2002–2004 Published in English by CMX. Hikkatsu! Strike a Blow to Vivify (Hikkatsu!) Dengeki Comic Gao! 3 2005–2006 Published in English by Go! Comi. Red Lightning (Akai inazuma) Weekly Shōnen Champion 2007 Short run Those Who Hunt Elves Returns (Erufu wo karu mono-tachi ritānzu) Dengeki Comic Gao! 1 2007–2008 Those Who Chase the Butterfly (Ageha o Ou Monotachi) Young Ace (Kadokawa Shoten) 4 2009- Sorcerous Stabber Orphen Mubō-hen (Majutsushi Ōfen Mubō-hen) 2018 Adaptation of the novels written by Yoshinobu Akita.
Illustrations
Yagami did the illustrations for , a series of six light novels by Taro Achi published by MediaWorks in the Dengeki Bunko imprint between 1999 and 2003.
Style Yagami's work in Those Who Hunt Elves is featured prominently in Volume 2 of the popular manga drawing instructional series How to Draw Manga, "Compiling Techniques". Several frames from the manga are held up as examples of good use of screentones.
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