ユート 1

ユート [Yuuto] #1

by Yumi Hotta, Kei Kawano (Illustrator), ほったゆみ

【スピードスケート少年・雄斗が夢に向かって滑り出す物語！】北海道から東京に引っ越してきた、スケート少年・瀬尾雄斗。地元では期待の星だったが、帯広の高月とのレースではあえなく敗北。再戦を誓った雄斗は、東京でもスケートを続けようと、新しい友人・吾川と共に、なんとかクラブを探し出したが…。スケート少年・雄斗の物語、第1巻！

194 pages, Paperback

First published July 4, 2005

About the author

Yumi Hotta (堀田 由美 Hotta Yumi, most often written as ほった ゆみ) is a Japanese mangaka, best known as the author of the best-selling manga and anime series Hikaru no Go, about the game of go that is widely credited for the recent boom of the game in Japan. The idea behind Hikaru no Go began when Yumi Hotta played a pick-up game of go with her father-in-law. She thought that it might be fun to create a manga based on this traditional board game, and began the work under the title of Nine Stars (九つの星 Kokonotsu no Hoshi), named for the nine "star points" on a go board. She later worked with Takeshi Obata (the illustrator) and Yukari Umezawa (5-Dan, the supervisor) in the creation of Hikaru no Go. She won the 2000 Shogakukan Manga Award and the 2003 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize for Hikaru no Go.