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40 Manga Creators Celebrate Meiji Milk Chocolate's 100th Anniversary
posted on by Ken Iikura-Gross
Japanese food company Meiji announced on Wednesday that its Milk Chocolate brand has partnered with 40 manga creators and 21 artists in celebration of the brand's 100th anniversary. The 40 manga creators offered illustrations of their character with Meiji Milk Chocolate bars while the 21 gallery artists created original pieces for the anniversary event.
The 40 manga creators are:
Chieko Hosokawa (Ōke no Monshō)
Minako Narita (Alien Street)
Yōichi Takahashi (Captain Tsubasa)
Mitsuru Adachi (Touch)
Tsukasa Hōjō (City Hunter)
Eriko Ono (Kocchi Muite Miko)
Keisuke Itagaki (Baki)
Yōko Kamio (Boys Over Flowers)
Wataru Yoshizumi (Marmalade Boy)
Kaori Yuki (Angel Sanctuary)
Takuya Mitsuda (Major)
Masayuki Kusumi, Jiro Taniguchi (Solitary Gourmet)
Nanpei Yamada (Kōcha Ōji)
Reiko Shimizu (Himitsu - The Top Secret)
Ai Yazawa (NANA)
Tomoko Ninomiya (Nodame Cantabile)
Hiromu Shinozuka (Milmo de Pon!)
Yoshiki Nakamura (Skip Beat!)
Yuuki Obata (Bokura ga Ita)
Asa Higuchi (Ookiku Furikabutte)
An Nakahara (Kirarin Revolution)
Ryo Ikuemi (Kiyoku Yawaku)
Yūji Terajima (Ace of Diamond)
Karuho Shiina (Kimi ni Todoke)
Yana Toboso (Black Butler)
Yuki Suetsugu (Chihayafuru)
Wataru Watanabe (Yowamushi Pedal)
Rino Mizuho (The Magic of Chocolate)
Kotomi Aoki (Kanojo wa Uso o Ai Shisugiteru)
Mizuho Kusanagi (Yona of the Dawn)
Nao Maita (Age 12)
Shinichi Ishizuka (Blue Giant Momentum)
Yūgo Kobayashi (Aoashi)
Tsubasa Yamaguchi (Blue Period)
Shūichi Shigeno (MF Ghost)
Norio Sakurai (The Dangers in My Heart)
Suu Morishita (A Sign of Affection)
Kanehito Yamada, Tsukasa Abe (Frieren: Beyond Journey's End)
Yuki Shiwasu (Tamon’s B-Side)
Yuki Fujimoto (Suzuki-kun’s Mindful Life)
The 21 artists are:
Takeru Amano
Yukino Ohmura
Kands Shinji
Wakumi Kanno
Daichi Kukita
Yasuhide Kunimoto
Hisashi Tenmyouya
Erika Naka
Shota Nakatsugawa
Yuka Numata
Yutaka Hashimoto
Ayame Higuchi
Toshiyuki Maeda
Mishima Tetsuya
Aki Tsukamoto
Geoffrey Bouillot
Lotta
Someta
Yeka Haski
Yuki Matsueda
Fyu
Meiji began selling its chocolate bars in 1926. According to Meiji, the brand now includes “more than twenty other brands, each with delicious characteristics.” The bars are currently available in China, the United States, and Asia.
Sources: Meiji's X/Twitter account, Meiji's website (link 2)
