Who Is This Kenji Sonishi Guy Anyway?
Remember how I talked a while back about Neko Rahmen, a 4koma comic strip whose anime had been released subtitled on VUZE a while back and which is now getting a live-action adaptation? Yes/no (circle one and return to me in 5th period!)
Well, it’s once again appeared in the news, tangentially anyway: anime!anime! reports that another work of Sonishi’s, a similar gag manga called Inu Gaisha that features dogs working in an office, is getting made into an anime as well. (It was also made into a live-action series in 2007.
Like Neko Rahmen, it’s going to be a Flash anime; unlike it, the production companies are different. Neko Rahmen was developed as part of THINK Corporation, but Inu Gaisha (literally “Dog Company,” btw) is being developed by indeprox. You can watch a mini-episode-thinger (or maybe a full episode is going to be like that?) at the official website.
So since his works keep coming up these days, I spent a small amount of spare time which I don’t have to look into him, only to find…not a lot of information! What I did find is after the jump.
Most of the info I found was on the Japanese Wikipedia page, where I learned that he has quite a few works, some under pen names like Kenji Sousai, Satoru Shiinomoto, and Jin Shioya (…going by common readings of the kanji, which Wikipedia didn’t offer furigana for). His works include:
- Doubutsu no Kame-chan (in Weekly Shounen Sunday as Kenji Sousai)
- Tatakau! Doubutsu no Kame-chan (in an extra issue of CoroCoro Comic)
- Makasete PET-kun (in Play Comic BunBun)
- Bungu Tengoku (Stationery Heaven, in Shougakkan no Gakushu Zasshi)
- Neko Rahmen (first in Comic Blade Masamune, now in Monthly Comic Blade)
- Kyouryuu no Jikan (Time of Dinosaurs, in Play Comic BunBun, as Jin Shioya)
- Zarigani Kachou (Crayfish Manager, in Monthly Afternoon)
- Inu Gaisha (in Manga Club)
You may detect a pattern with animals here. Anyway, Wiki also notes that Inu Gaisha’s original concept came not from Sonishi but from a Yuuichi Fukuda. And that’s about all I could get, other than that Sonishi was born in ‘69. Though no doubt more will come, at the rate he’s going…
Tags: inu gaisha, kenji sonishi, neko rahmen
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