is a Japanese manga artist. She made her professional debut in 1988 with , serialized in ''

Weekly Young Sunday was a weekly manga magazine published by Shogakukan in Japan since the first issue on March 27, 1987. It replaced '' Shōnen Big Comic'' in Shogakukan's lineup of shōnen titles, and many of the titles in ''Shōnen Big Comic'' were continued in ...

''. In 1989, she graduated from the Department of Visual Communication Design at

Musashino Art University or is a private university in Kodaira, Western Tokyo, founded in 1962 with roots going back to 1929. It is known as one of the leading art universities in Japan. History In October 1929, was founded. In December 1948, it became , and in ...

. Saibara has received numerous awards throughout her career, including the 43rd

Bungeishunjū Manga Award The was an annual award established in 1955 and given out by Bungeishunjū in Japan for gag, , one-panel, and satirical manga. The award was also given out for works considered the magnum opus of manga creators. Past winners of the award inclu ...

in 1997 for ; the Excellence Award at the 8th

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in 2004 for ; the Short Story Award at the 9th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prizes in 2005 for and ; the President of the House of Councilors Award at the 40th Japan Cartoonist Awards in 2011 for ; and the 6th Best Mother Award for Literature in 2020. She is friends with fellow manga artist

Nobuyuki Fukumoto is a Japanese manga artist well known for his work including unique and original gambling ideas, deep psychological analyses of characters, and distinct artstyle. Yakuza and gambling are recurring themes in his manga. In English-speaking countri ...

. When she appeared on "''

Big Comic Superior is a semimonthly seinen manga magazine published since July 1, 1987 by Shogakukan in Japan. Its target audience is somewhere between the audience for ''Big Comic Original'' and ''Big Comic Spirits''. The magazine has published works by a numb ...

'' Presents: The 6th ''Saibara Rieko's Life Art Skill Showdown''", she revealed that she had known him for 20 years, and wrote that he has been "a handsome, serious, gentle-mannered and lovely man ever since then", but he was ignored by female manga artists because of his unpopular status.

Works

Manga

* (serialized in ''

'', 1988–1994) * (serialized in '' Manga Club'', 1989–1997) * (co-author, serialized in '' Weekly Asahi'', 1992–1994) * (serialized in ''

Big Comic Spirits is a weekly Japanese ''seinen'' manga magazine published by Shogakukan. The first issue was published on October 14, 1980. Food, sports, romance and business are recurring themes in the magazine, and the stories often question conventional va ...

'', 1995–1998) * (serialized in the ''

Mainichi Shimbun The is one of the major newspapers in Japan, published by In addition to the ''Mainichi Shimbun'', which is printed twice a day in several local editions, Mainichi also operates an English language news website called ''The Mainichi'' (previ ...

'', 2002–2017) * (serialized in '' Yasei Jidai'', 2004–2006) * (serialized in '' Shinchosha 45'', 2004–2006) * (serialized in ''

'', 2004) * (serialized in ''Big Comic Superior'', 2005) * (serialized in ''Big Comic Superior'', 2005) * (serialized in ''Big Comic Superior'', 2014–present) * (serialized in the ''Mainichi Shimbun'', 2017–present)

Video games

* (

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, 1995) * ( PlayStation, 1998) * (PlayStation, 2000) * (

Game Boy Advance The (GBA) is a 32-bit handheld game console developed, manufactured and marketed by Nintendo as the successor to the Game Boy Color. It was released in Japan on March 21, 2001, in North America on June 11, 2001, in the PAL region on June 22, ...

, 2001)

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