Negi Haruba

Negi Haruba, born on July 21, 1991, is a Japanese manga artist and author of the 5Toubun no Hanayome manga series.

Biography
A mangaka from Aichi Prefecture, Negi Haruba graduated from Trident College of Design. In November 2015, Negi got married in his hometown.

Career
Negi Haruba graduated from the manga department of Trident College of Design in 2013. He won an award in the 89th Weekly Shōnen Magazine Newcomer Manga Award organized by Kodansha with the one-shot manga Coward Cross World (カワードクロスワールド). The work was published in Magazine SPECIAL 2013 as his debut.

In 2014, he won a Gold Award for the one-shot Ura Sekai Communication in the 21st Dengeki Grand Prize sponsored by KADOKAWA and ASCII Media Works. This work was later published in Weekly Comic Dengeki Daioh magazine in September 2014.

Negi Haruba collaborated with Shun Hirose to illustrate and publish Rengoku no Karma to the Weekly Shōnen Magazine from October 22, 2014 to 2015, which ended in 5 volumes. On December 9, 2015, he wrote the one-shot Vampire Killer and publish it in Weekly Shōnen Magazine.

On January 25, 2017, wrote yet another one-shot, titled 5Toubun no Hanayome. Receiving positive responses for his work, an official serialization of the one-shot was announced and published in Weekly Shōnen Magazine on August 9, 2017. A year later, the manga series was announced to get an anime adaptation on August 8, 2018, and to be aired on TBS from January 1, 2019.

Serials

 * Rengoku no Karma (煉獄のカルマ): Negi Haruba was involved in the illustration of Rengoku no Karma, a manga series authored by Shun Hirose (廣瀬 俊). The series began serialization in Weekly Shōnen Magazine and ended at the fifth volume in 2015 (October 22, 2014 — August 20, 2015).
 * 5Toubun no Hanayome (五等分の花嫁) as creator and author. Published in Weekly Shōnen Magazine since 2017 and is ongoing (August 9, 2017 — ongoing)

One-shots

 * Coward Cross World (カワードクロスワールド) in Magazine SPECIAL 2013 Issue 4.
 * Ura Sekai Communication (裏世界コミュニケーション) in Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh in September, 2014.
 * Vampire Killer (ヴァンパイアキラー) in Weekly Shōnen Magazine 2016 Merger Issue 2 and 3.
 * 5Toubun no Hanayome (五等分の花嫁) in Weekly Shōnen Magazine 2017 Issue 8.

Others

 * Negi drew the ending card for episode 2 of the Boarding School Juliet anime series.
 * Negi drew Nanako from the Senryuu Shoujo series, for special illustration in Weekly Shōnen Magazine no. 19, 2017.
 * Negi drew Nagatoro, a character from the Please Don't Bully Me, Nagatoro manga series, for Please don't bully me, Nagatoro Illust Collection.

Trivia

 * In the Dengeki Comic Grand Prize division of the 21st Dengeki Grand Prize, two people have won gold medals, and the other is Nio Nakatani, who is known for the popular series Bloom Into You.