Talk:Asami Jō

Is she living?

I reverted this change. IMDB doesn't list her as dead, and I've been unable to find any news item or obituary to that effect. If I'm wrong, please add that back in, but with a source. grendel|khan 16:50, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

I stumbled across this, and did a little research. Yumi Kayama (加山 弓) was a female manga artist who died of breast cancer July 27, 2005. (Her website is still mostly available: http://www1.linkclub.or.jp/~yumix/kumakoro_top.html.) Asami of course performed in Megaranger under the name Yumi Kayama (佳山 由実) - same pronunciation, but different kanji.

Hence, one might conclude someone just confused the two names. However, what little biographical information I found for the two was the same - birthdate (September 15), blood type (A). Adding to the confusion, both used pseudonyms of sorts - Yumi the manga artist did yaoi manga under the name 加山 弓 (in kanji), while she did (non-yaoi) shoujo manga under the name かやま ゆみ (in hiragana). So it's certainly conceivable that all of these names are for the same person.

Three different people. The manga artist died at age 45[1]. Evan1975 (talk) 03:55, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

However, I have not yet found any Japanese source that says this. The German Wikipedia (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumi_Kayama) definitively identifies the two as the same, without, however, giving a source. The Japanese version (http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9F%8E%E9%BA%BB%E7%BE%8E) does not even mention the manga artist. In fact, when I did a Google search, the only Japanese pages which mentioned both names were lists of books which happened to include something from both. So for now, I would leave them separate. Mahousu (talk) 12:53, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

To add to the confusion a little, there is a third Yumi Kayama (加山由実) who appeared in a few movies and such in the early '90's (16-sai no Marine Blue, All Night Long...). She is listed in IMDB with birth and death dates of September 15, 1975 and July 27, 2005, which would seem to match with one or both of the above. However, I think this is a mistake in IMDB; listings for her in I-dic (http://i-dic.dorachan.com/data?kymym_00) and 70jp.com have rather different biographical information (born 1973-4-17, real name Yumi Yoshida (吉田由美), blood type O, etc.). So I think this is pretty clearly yet another person. Mahousu (talk) 00:30, 7 July 2008 (UTC)