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 ...

. She began submitting

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 ...

to comic magazines when she was only 12 years old, in the sixth grade of elementary school. She continued to send her manga to the same magazine for four years, but failed to receive a positive critical reception. Ragawa then decided to switch to a different magazine, ''

Hana to Yume , also known as , is a semi-monthly Japanese manga magazine published by Hakusensha on the 5th and 20th of every month. The magazine is B5-size, and always comes with or free supplements, such as drama CDs, pencil boards (shitajiki), manga ...

''. Her first submission to this magazine won a prize called the "Top Prize" (). Two years later in 1990, she succeeded in achieving her debut with her

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manga , published in ''Hana to Yume'' issue 22. Ragawa continued to create long-running manga series such as ''

Baby & Me is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Marimo Ragawa. It was published in Hakusensha's magazine ''Hana to Yume'' from 1991 to 1997. In North America, it was published by Viz Media. The series was adapted into an anime televis ...

'', '' New York New York'', and '. In 1995, she won the 40th

Shogakukan Manga Award The is one of Japan's major manga awards, and is sponsored by Shogakukan, Shogakukan Publishing. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga and features candidates from a number of publishers. It is the oldest manga award in Japan, being ...

in the category for ''Baby & Me''. In 2012, she won both the 36th

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 ...

in the category and an Excellence Award at the 16th

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for ''

Those Snow White Notes is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Marimo Ragawa. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Monthly Shōnen Magazine'' from December 2009 to August 2022, and has been collected in twenty-nine ''tankōb ...

''.

Works

* ''Time Limit'' (one-shot, 1990) * ''

'' (1991–1997) * ' (1993–2014) * '' New York New York'' (1995–1998) * ' (1998–2009) * ''

'' (2009–2022) * ''The Vampire & His Pleasant Companions'' (with Narise Konohara, 2016–present)

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at * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ragawa, Marimo Female comics writers Japanese female comics artists Japanese women writers Living people Manga artists from Aomori Prefecture People from Hachinohe Women manga artists Year of birth missing (living people)