is a Japanese

manga artist A is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. As of 2006, about 3,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan. Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist be ...

who has been creating

manga Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is u ...

since 1998. Most of her manga are written under the

yaoi ''Yaoi'' (; ja, やおい ), also known by the ''wasei-eigo'' construction and its abbreviation , is a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that features Homoeroticism, homoerotic relationships between male characters. It is typi ...

and

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genre.

Biography

She is the grandchild of former

Prime minister of Japan The prime minister of Japan (Japanese: 内閣総理大臣, Hepburn: ''Naikaku Sōri-Daijin'') is the head of government of Japan. The prime minister chairs the Cabinet of Japan and has the ability to select and dismiss its Ministers of Stat ...

Noboru Takeshita was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1987 to 1989 during the bubble economy. Takeshita led the largest faction at the time in the Liberal Democratic Party, which he inherited from Kakuei Tanaka, from the 1980s u ...

and the older sister of

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singer

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. She lived in Ichikawa, Chiba but had to move back to Tokyo after her grandfather became the prime minister of Japan. As of 11 January 2016, she is the sister-in-law of actress

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. One of her good friends, also a fellow manga artist, is

Mikiyo Tsuda __NOTOC__ is a Japanese manga writer and illustrator from Fukui Prefecture who has been writing manga since 1998. This name is one of her two pen names that she writes under when drawing manga, the other being .Afterword section in the Digital Ma ...

, otherwise known as Taishi Zaō. They often co-author manga together, display their art together, and have autograph sessions together, among other things. Eiki Eiki has even been known to sometimes act as Taishi Zaō's manager.''Afterword section in the

Digital Manga Publishing Digital Manga is a California-based publishing company that licenses and releases Japanese manga, anime, and related merchandise in the English language. Digital Manga also owns and operates eManga, a digital publishing site for manga and l ...

version of The Day of Revolution, volume 1'' Eiki Eiki's persona is that of a

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wearing a red

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Works

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Dear Myself ''Dear Myself'' is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Eiki Eiki, with a sequel, ''World's End''. They are licensed in North America by Digital Manga Publishing which released ''Dear Myself'' in August 2006 and ''World's End'' in Octob ...

'' **'' Unmei ni Kiss'' - sequel **'' World's End'' - sequel *''

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Train Train ''Train+Train'' is a Japanese light novel series, written by Hideyuki Kurata (author of the ''Read or Dream'' series) and illustrated by Tomomasa Takuma. A manga series was serialized in '' Dengeki Daioh'' between January 2000 and May 2003 ...

'' *'' Yuigon'' *''Scissors Sisters'' - coauthored with Daigo and drawn by Marico.

Co-authored with Taishi Zaō

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'' (1999) *''

Haru Natsu Aki Fuyu is a Japanese erotic romance ''yuri'' manga written by Eiki Eiki and illustrated by Taishi Zaou. It was serialized on ''Yuri Shimai'' and ''Comic Yuri Hime'' and published in a single volume by Ichijinsha. It was published in English on JManga ...

'' (2007) - a collection of

stories that were serialized in ''

Yuri Hime is a manga anthology magazine published in Japan by Ichijinsha. It began as a quarterly publication in July 2005, but was issued bimonthly on odd months from January 2011 to December 2016, when it became monthly. Kanako Umezawa has served as ''Co ...

'', such as ''She-Wolf'' and ''First Kiss''. *'' Love DNA Double X'' *''

Love Stage!! is a Japanese ''yaoi'' manga series written by Eiki Eiki and illustrated by Taishi Zaō. It began serialization in the July 2010 issue of Kadokawa Shoten's ''Asuka Ciel'' magazine. The manga is licensed in North America by SuBLime. A spin ...

References

External links

Eiki Eiki's website

Interview with Eiki Eiki
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Eiki, Eiki 1971 births Japanese female comics artists Female comics writers Living people 20th-century Japanese women writers 20th-century Japanese writers 21st-century Japanese women writers 21st-century Japanese writers Manga artists from Tokyo Women manga artists