Yoshitoki Ōima

Yoshitoki Ōima (大今 良時, Ōima Yoshitoki, born March 15, 1989) is the creator of A Silent Voice and the upcoming series To Your Eternity.

Background
In 2008, she wrote the one-shot Koe no Katachi. But due to it’s subject matter, it wasn’t published until February 2011, when it was published in the magazine Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine.

She instead made her debut with the manga adaptation of Tow Ubukata’s Mardock Scramble novel series, which ran in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine from October 2009 to May 2012 for 7 volumes.

In August 2013, her Koe no Katachi one-shot was turned into a full manga series, and ran until November 2014, again for 7 volumes. The series was published in Weekly Shōnen Magazine. It won several awards, and an anime film adaptation by Kyoto Animation was released in September 2016.

In November 2016, she began her second manga series, To Your Eternity, which is ongoing and is also being published in Weekly Shōnen Magazine. Kodansha Comics is simulpublishing the manga in English. A 20-episode anime television series adaptation by Brain’s Base will begin airing in April 2021. It was planned to begin airing in October 2020, but it was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Crunchyroll will stream the anime series.

Works

 * 1) Mardock Scramble (2009-2012, Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine)   [7 Volumes; Published in English by Kodansha Comics; Written by Tow Ubukata]
 * 2) Koe no Katachi (2011, Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine) [One-shot; Written in 2008, but due to the subject matter, wasn’t published until 2011]
 * 3) A Silent Voice (2013-2014, Weekly Shōnen Magazine) [7 Volumes; Published in English by Kodansha Comics]
 * 4) To Your Eternity (2016-, Weekly Shōnen Magazine) [12+ Volumes; Published in English by Kodansha Comics]

A Silent Voice was adapted into an anime movie. To Your Eternity will be adapted into an anime series in April 2021.