was a Japanese manga artist, best known for her series ''

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''.

Personal life

Sano was born in

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, Hyōgo on 17 April 1987. She attended for her secondary education. According to a former classmate, Sano was a quiet student but was skilled in painting, stating that she drew the background for a class play during their school's

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. In an interview at

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2016, Sano revealed that she had wanted to be a manga artist since she was in elementary school and started drawing manga while in high school. She graduated from

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under a

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course. Sano died of cancer on 5 August 2023 at age 36; a funeral was held on 7 and 8 August. She was diagnosed a month before her death and was in the process of planning a new manga while undergoing treatment. Her death was made public on 16 August. The announcement included a passage from her final letter, which stated, "This ended up being a fun life. I am now going to a more free world. Goodbye."

Career

Sano worked as an assistant for ''

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'' author . She debuted as a manga artist in 2010 with the one-shot ''Non-Sugar Coffee'', which was published in the magazine '' Fellows!''. Her debut series ''

'' was initially a one-shot published in ''Fellows!'' in August 2011, before being serialized in the same magazine, later renamed to ''Harta'', until December 2015. The series follows a high school student named Sakamoto who has a reputation for being the "coolest" person in the entire student body. It won the

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Grand Prize in 2013 and was nominated for the

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in 2014. It was also adapted into an

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series in 2016. Her second manga, '' Migi & Dali'', was serialized in ''Harta'' from June 2017 to November 2021. It has been adapted into an anime series, which premiered in October 2023.

Works

* (2010, one-shot published in '' Fellows!'') * (2011, one-shot published in ''Costume Fellows! 2011'') * (2011–2015, serialized in ''Harta'') * (2016, one-shot published in ''Harta'') * (2017–2021, serialized in ''Harta'')

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sano, Nami 1987 births 2023 deaths Deaths from cancer in Japan Manga artists from Hyōgo Prefecture People from Nishinomiya Women manga artists