His work seems to be strongly influenced by the authors Franz Kafka ( The Metamorphosis), and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ( The Little Prince) and a lot of times contains references and parallels. Ishida also likes to write poem that he posts along with his drawings in his Tumblr. He also made gameplays of the games Heavy Rain, Hitman 3 and Resident Evil 8 in his YouTube channel. He named one of his character, Abara Hanbee, after a Orechika 2 character and made a drawing of the the Quinx Squad, from Tokyo Ghoul, in the roles of characters from the game. Sui Ishida said that he liked playing games, such as Fallout and Orechika 2 before going to bed. He stated multiple times that he is a fan of Hunter x Hunter and studied Yoshihiro Togashi's style. He also made some art of Tokyo Revengers, Naruto, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Final Fantasy and others. Ishida seems to be a fan of Attack on Titan as he made an art to celebrate the final chapter release.
He drew a cover for their albuns and made a cameo appearance in Amazarashi's music video of their song "Ending Theme". He is also a fan of the groups who performed the ending and opening themes of the anime, österreich and Amazarashi. He also seems to be a fan of the band Ling tosite Sigure as he named a Tokyo Ghoul chapter after one of their songs and personally requested their lead singer, TK, to sing the opening theme of the first season of the anime. He posted fanart of some K-pop groups as well. He seems to enjoy J-pop and J-rock as he posted art of several groups, singers and albums of the genres on his social media, including works related to FANTASTICS from EXILE TRIBE, ano, Reol, Tokyo Gegegay and Queen Bee. He puts references of it in his work and makes art of bands and songs he likes occasionally. Ishida is very open about his music taste.
In 2021 Ishida started to serialize his new manga, Choujin X, in an irregular release schedule in Tonari no Young magazine. In 2019 he started working in a otome game called Jack Jeanne, that was published in 2021. In 2013, he also started Tokyo Ghoul: Jack in the digital magazine Jump LIVE.Īfter the ending of Tokyo Ghoul and around one month later in October 2014, the sequel manga, Tokyo Ghoul:re, was published in Weekly Young Jump and ended in July 2018. In December 2011, he made another oneshot about Rize Kamishiro that was published in December 2011 in Miracle Jump 6th Issue, which was later collected in the fifth volume of Tokyo Ghoul.
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And later in September 2011, Tokyo Ghoul started as a series in Weekly Young Jump 2011-41 Issue. In March 2011, the same oneshot was published in the 2nd Issue of Miracle Jump. In 2010 he won the Young Jump 113th Grand Prix award with Tokyo Ghoul (東京喰種トーキョーグール, Tōkyō Gūru). He stated in his blog that he started to live in Fukuoka in the first half of 2012. The second one is called THE PENISMAN and was published in 2010 under the pen name Sotonami (そとなみ, Sotonami). The first one was called The Tale of Longing for Sex (セックスしたい物語, Sekkusu Shitai Monogatari) and was published in 2009 under the pen name Nashimoto (梨元, Nashimoto), but apparently it's data was lost due to hard drive problems. īefore publishing Tokyo Ghoul's oneshot, Ishida wrote two webcomics. He also worked as an tattoo artist before being a mangaka.
He stated on social media that as a child, rather than reading he was "constantly swinging on horizontal bars", which means he was very likely athletic. Not much is known about his life before the publishing of Tokyo Ghoul. Sui Ishida was born in Fukuoka on December 28 1986.