is a Japanese manga artist. Fumizuki's most famous work to date is ''

Ai Yori Aoshi is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kou Fumizuki. The manga was serialized in Hakusensha's '' Young Animal'' magazine from 1998 to 2005 and the chapters collected into 17 ''tankōbon'' volumes. It is a love story betwee ...

'', a 17-volume work which has been turned into an anime series. This series was followed by ''Umi no Misaki'', serialized in ''

Young Animal In the English language, animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is ''The Book of Saint Al ...

'' Magazine starting in the fifth issue of 2007 and concluding with its 127th and final chapter in the fifth issue of 2014. Both of these ''

seinen is an editorial category of Japanese comics marketed toward young adult men. In Japanese, the word ''seinen'' literally means "youth", but the term "''seinen'' manga" is also used to describe the target audience of magazines like '' Weekly Ma ...

'' manga series are

harem Harem ( Persian: حرمسرا ''haramsarā'', ar, حَرِيمٌ ''ḥarīm'', "a sacred inviolable place; harem; female members of the family") refers to domestic spaces that are reserved for the women of the house in a Muslim family. A har ...

-type romance comedies in which a naive young man finds himself surrounded by pretty girls vying for his attention. Since 2011 he has also been serializing ''Itadaki!'', a light comedy about a girls' mountain climbing club, which appears intermittently in the magazine ''Young Animal Island''. Starting October 9, 2015 in ''Young Animal'' he launched a new series, ''Boku to Rune to Aoarashi,'' about an art school student who goes on a pilgrimage to meet a great landscape painter named Seiran, and discovers an extraordinary girl in Seiran's household."Ai Yori Aoshi's Fumizuki Launches Boku to Rune to Aoarashi Manga."
Retrieved Oct. 23, 2015. In October 2016 it was announced that the final chapter of ''Boku to Rune to Aoarashi'' would appear in the 21st issue of 2016, out October 28."Ai Yori Aoshi's Fumizuki Ends Boku to Rune to Aoarashi Manga", ''Anime News Network'', Oct. 13, 2016. Retrieved Oct. 29, 2016.

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Kou Fumizuki
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