Ume Aoki

Ume Aoki
Native name
蒼樹 うめ
Born (1981-08-03) August 3, 1981 (age 43)
Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
OccupationManga artist, illustrator
NationalityJapanese
Alma materMusashino Art University
GenreFiction
Website
ap.sakuraweb.com

Ume Aoki (Japanese: 蒼樹 うめ, Hepburn: Aoki Ume, born August 3, 1981) is a Japanese manga artist, illustrator and dōjin artist from Hyōgo Prefecture. She officially romanizes her name as aokiume.[1][2][3] She illustrates under the pennames apricot+ for many of her dōjinshi,[4] and Apply Fujimiya (藤宮 アプリ, Fujimiya Apuri) for the visual novel Sanarara.

Aoki provided the voice for her Metapod persona in the Shaft anime adaptation of her four-panel comic strip Hidamari Sketch.[5] She later created the original character designs for Puella Magi Madoka Magica, a Shaft anime production;[6] and has been involved with the franchise—spanning several films, mobile games, manga, novels, and further television anime series—since then.

  1. ^ "Madoka Vol.1 Collection press photo". Retrieved December 7, 2011.
  2. ^ "Ume Aoki's official twitter". Retrieved December 7, 2011.
  3. ^ "Madoka Magica USA Facebook". Facebook. Retrieved December 19, 2011.
  4. ^ "Aoki Ume's official home page". Retrieved December 7, 2011.
  5. ^ "TBSアニメーション「ひだまりスケッチ」公式HP". tbs.co.jp (in Japanese). Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc. Retrieved December 25, 2011.
  6. ^ "Bakemonogatari's Shinbo, Phantom's Urobuchi Launch New Anime". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 21, 2010.