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Fukui Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Fukui Prefecture has a population of 778,943 (1 June 2017) and has a geographic area of 4,190 km2 (1,617 sq mi). Fukui Prefecture borders Ishikawa Prefecture to the north, Gi ...

who has been writing manga since 1998. This name is one of her two

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s that she writes under when drawing manga, the other being .Afterword section in the

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version of ''

The Day of Revolution is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Mikiyo Tsuda. The series was serialized in Shinshokan's manga magazine ''South'' between April 1998 and February 2001. The manga is licensed in English by Digital Manga Publishing and has been re ...

'', volume 1. Under the name ''Taishi Zaō'', she writes

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and girls love manga while under ''Mikiyo Tsuda'' she writes

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- shōjo manga. Her reasons for doing this mainly had to do with keeping the fact that she drew manga centered on

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relationships from her family but they eventually found out anyway. Many manga artists often adopt artistic

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s for themselves in order to represent themselves in sections of their manga not attributed to the story, as in an author's note section. Mikiyo Tsuda's persona is that of a

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wearing a red

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with a bell at its center. One of her friends, and also a fellow manga artist, is

Eiki Eiki is a Japanese manga artist who has been creating manga since 1998. Most of her manga are written under the yaoi and yuri genre. Biography She is the grandchild of former Prime minister of Japan Noboru Takeshita and the older sister of rock sin ...

. They often co-author manga together, display their art together, and have autograph sessions together. Eiki Eiki has even been known to sometimes act as ''Taishi Zaō's'' manager.

Works

Written as Mikiyo Tsuda

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'' (1999) *'' Family Complex'' (2000) *'' Princess Princess'' (2002) **'' Princess Princess +'' (2006) *'' Atsumare! Gakuen Tengoku'' (2008)

Written as Taishi Zaō

*'' Electric Hands'' (1998) *'' Koi wa Ina Mono Myōna Mono'' (2002) *'' Bokutachi wa Asu ni Mukatte Ikiru no da'' (2005) *'' Aruji no Ōse no Mama ni'' (2005) *''

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'' *''Her'' - included in ''Haru Natsu Aki Fuyu''

Co-authored with Eiki Eiki

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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 JMa ...

'' (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 ' ...

'', such as ''She-Wolf'' and ''First Kiss''. *'' Love DNA Double X'' (2009) *'' Love Stage!!'' (2010) *''

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'' (2010)

References

External links

Mikiyo Tsuda's personal website
Japanese female comics artists Female comics writers Living people Women manga artists Manga artists from Fukui Prefecture Japanese women writers Year of birth missing (living people) {{Japan-artist-stub