Wakame Konbu

Wakame Konbu (昆布わかめ) is a Japanese manga artist and the author and illustrator of The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated!.

About
Konbu is a Japanese manga artist known mostly for her comedy and yuri manga. She began activity as a mangaka in 2013, debuting in the September-October 2013 issues of Hobunsha's Manga Time Kirara MAX with the one-shot Akari Mimi is what Mimi? (あかりのみみはなんのみみ?), before gradually releasing a number of other one-shots in the same magazine and then finally beginning to serialize her first proper series.

In 2019, Konbu created a YouTube channel to release speedpaints of her illustrations. She debuted her own VTuber character (drawn by herself) in a radio stream she later did alongside Nishizawa, a fellow illustrator known for being the "mama" of hololive's 5th gen VTuber Momosuzu Nene, who is coincidentally one of the three hololive members who sang the ending song for The Great Jahy's anime series. Konbu eventually had her character rigged into a proper live 2D model on April 29, 2020, and continued to consistently stream and post her speedpaints as a VTuber on YouTube, amassing 40K subscribers as of April 2021.

Notable Works
Konbu's first well-known manga began on Feb 19, 2016, and was a comedy ballet manga named Dreaming Prima Girl! (夢見るプリマ・ガール！) that was published by Manga Time Kirara MAX.

During its run, Konbu also took up writing her next manga, Breasts Are My Favorite Things in the World! (世界で一番おっぱいが好き！), published in Comic Cune, which started on Jul 27, 2017 and is still currently ongoing. The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated! (ジャヒー様はくじけない！) then began on the 22nd of the following month, and Prima Girl! finished its run the next year on Jan 19, spanning 25 chapters across 2 volumes in total.

On Jan 22, 2020, Konbu then began another manga, The Maid I Hired Recently is Mysterious (最近雇ったメイドが怪しい), which is currently being serialized in Gangan JOKER alongside Jahy-sama.

Collaborations
Konbu also participated in a number of collaboration works with other mangaka, the most prominent of these being Shadowverse: Dengeki Comic Anthology (シャドウバース 電撃コミックアンソロジー) (Mar 27, 2017), JC no Miryoku wo Tanoshimu Kenzen na Anthology Comic (JCの魅力を楽しむ健全なアンソロジーコミック) (May 27, 2017) and Precious. 4P Short Stories (尊い. 4Pショート・ストーリーズ) (Oct 25, 2019).

The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated!

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