Shizuka Arakawa Shizuka Arakawa Arakawa retired from competitive skating following her Olympic win and began skating professionally in ice shows and exhibitions. She also works as a skating sportscaster for Japanese television. Arakawa was born in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan, and grew up in Sendai and its suburbs. She is the only child of Koichi and Sachi Arakawa and was named Shizuka after Shizuka Gozen. In March 2000, Arakawa enrolled at Waseda University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in social sciences in 2004, while still competing as a skater. She won the 2004 World Figure Skating Championships days after completing her graduation
Hiromu Arakawa Rees Brennan. In April 2011, Arakawa began a new series called "Silver Spoon" in Shogakukan's "Weekly Shōnen Sunday". Rather than writing another fantasy series like "Fullmetal Alchemist", Arakawa wanted to challenge herself by trying a more realistic story with "Silver Spoon". It quickly rose among Shogakukan's best-selling titles and an anime series by A-1 Pictures began airing in July 2013. Also in July 2013 she began her manga adaptation of Yoshiki Tanaka's "The Heroic Legend of Arslan" series of novels in Kodansha's "Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine". Arakawa states that Suihō Tagawa, the author of "Norakuro", is the "root of [her] style