Chica Umino (Jap: 羽海野チカ) is a Japanese mangaka. Her real name is not disclosed, "Umino Chica" is a pen name.
She began work as a product designer and illustrator. Umino has a unique drawing style, listing Studio Ghibli amongst her influences, and her characters are remarkably well-developed.
Her most famous series to date is Hachimitsu to Clover (English name: Honey and Clover), a 'slice of life' manga series which debuted in 2000 in Shueisha's manga magazine, CUTiEcomic. The series won the Kodansha Manga Award in 2003 and was nominated for the Tezuka Culture Prize and an award from the Japan Media Arts Festival. It was also adapted into an animated television series in 2005, a live-action movie in 2006 and two individual live-action TV series in 2008.
Her ongoing recent series is Sangatsu no Lion (English name: March comes in like a lion), which began serialization in 2007. The series won several important prizes including: the Manga Taisho prize and Kodansha Manga Prize (general audience) in 2011, the Tezuka Osamushi Cultural Prize in 2014, and the Bunkacho Media Geijutsusai Manga bumon in 2021.
Umino has also provided the illustration for the 2009 anime series Eden of the East by Kenji Kamiyama, as well as 'Tobira o Akete' and the Glass Heart series, including 'Boukensha-tachi', 'Netsu no Shiro' and 'Love Way'.
Volume 7 rides on the afterglow of the sublime finish of Volume 6. The first few chapters basically serve as an epilogue to the last volume. It also ends the bullying arc in a way handled superbly by the author. This is another great volume.
Por fin termina el arco del acoso escolar que sufre Hina... Kiriyama participa en el torneo de novatos, y luego le toca realizar una partida conmemorativa con Sôya Meijin. Este tomo fue reconfortante, me hizo derramar más de alguna lágrima.
Non so perché, ma questo albetto mi è sembrato lungo il triplo degli altri - le dimensioni confermano che si tratti di un'illusione - in ogni caso, un altro numero gradevole.
Un tome très beau et émouvant, avec notamment la fin de la partie de harcèlement de Hana. March comes in like a lion est vraiment une série au top, douce, triste et drôle par moment.