Who is Sui Ishida?
A Fukuoka artist who keeps his private life private, and signs everything with the same pen name.
Sui Ishida (石田 スイ) is a pen name. He was born on December 28, 1986, in Fukuoka Prefecture, and began drawing as a small child, encouraged by his elder sister, who also became a writer: Shin Towada, author of the Tokyo Ghoul novels.
Before his professional debut he posted webcomics under other names: a first webcomic in 2009 as Nashimoto, whose data was later lost to a hard-drive failure, and THE PENISMAN in 2010 as Sotonami, the handle he still uses. The Tokyo Ghoul one-shot then took second place in the 113th Young Jump Grand Prix in 2010, and his career in print followed from it directly.
THE WORK, IN ORDER
2009–present2009–10 · Webcomics
Two self-published webcomics under pen names, the training ground before the prize entry.
2010–11 · The one-shot
Tokyo Ghoul as a single chapter: second place in the Young Jump Grand Prix, then print in Miracle Jump No. 2, March 2011.
2011–14 · Tokyo Ghoul
Weekly Young Jump serialisation, fourteen volumes, and the Rize and Joker side one-shots along the way.
2013 · [Jack]
The seven-chapter prequel about the young Arima and Fura, published digitally on Jump Live.
2014–18 · Tokyo Ghoul:re
The sequel, sixteen volumes, drawn back-to-back with the end of the first series: a seven-year weekly run in total.
2016 · A draft for Togashi
Ishida drew a storyboard draft of a Hisoka origin story for Hunter × Hunter, published on Shōnen Jump+ in 2016: one master of dark seinen sketching another’s character.
2021 · Jack Jeanne
A full game created with Broccoli for Nintendo Switch: original work, character designs, world design, in-game illustrations and song lyrics. See the Jack Jeanne page.
2021– · Choujin X
His current manga, published on Tonari no Young Jump at his own pace. See the Choujin X page.