is a Japanese '' shōjo'' and ''

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. She made her debut as a professional manga artist in 1968 with ''Yuki no Serenade''. In 1986 she received the

Kodansha Manga Award is an annual award for serialized manga published in the previous year, the event is sponsored by the publisher Kodansha. It is currently awarded in three categories: '' shōnen'', '' shōjo'', and general. The awards began in 1977, initially w ...

for shōjo for '' Yūkan Club'', and in 2007, she received an Excellence Prize in

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at the

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for ''

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''. Several of her series have been dramatized, including ''Yūkan Club'' as an

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and ''Designer'' and ''Tadashii Ren'ai no Susume'' as high-rated live-action television dramas. A live-action film based on her work ''Pride'' was released in 2009.

Yoshimi Uchida is a Japanese manga artist. Career She was born in Yamanashi Prefecture. The first manga she read was ''8 Man'' by Jiro Kuwata was a Japanese manga artist. Biography A gifted artist, Kuwata started out as a manga artist at the young age of ...

worked for her as an assistant in the 1970s.

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Profile at The Ultimate Manga Guide
1949 births Living people Japanese female comics artists Manga artists from Okayama Prefecture Winner of Kodansha Manga Award (Shōjo) Women manga artists {{manga-artist-stub