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 ...

Career

She debuted in 1992 in

Kodansha is a Japanese privately-held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Kodansha is the largest Japanese publishing company, and it produces the manga magazines ''Nakayoshi'', ''Afternoon'', ''Evening'', ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' an ...

's ''

Nakayoshi is a monthly ''shōjo'' manga magazine published by Kodansha in Japan. First issued in December 1954, it is a long-running magazine with over 60 years of manga publication history. Notable titles serialized in Nakayoshi include ''Princess Knight ...

'' magazine with ''Taiyō no Romance''. Her works later moved to ''

Bessatsu Friend , formerly known as , is a Japanese Shōjo manga, manga magazine published by Kodansha, aimed at teenage girls. It was originally conceived as a , or companion magazine, to ''Shōjo Friend'', which is no longer published. ''Bessatsu Friend'' i ...

'' magazine, also published by Kodansha. Her career was put on hiatus in October 2005, after she was discovered to have plagiarized other artists, including tracing others' work. She later resumed her work in March 2007. On March 24, 2009, her work ''

Chihayafuru is a Japanese ''josei'' manga series written and illustrated by Yuki Suetsugu. It was serialized in Kodansha's ''josei'' manga magazine '' Be Love'' from December 2007 to August 2022, with its chapters collected in 50 ''tankōbon'' vo ...

'' was chosen for the

Manga Taishō The is a Japanese comics award recognizing achievement in manga. It is awarded annually to a manga series published in the previous calendar year of eight or fewer collected volumes in length. The Manga Taishō was founded with the aim of re ...

Political views

On June 5, 2020, she expressed support for

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movement. She supported

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for the

2020 Tokyo gubernatorial election The 2020 Tokyo gubernatorial election took place on 5 July 2020 to elect the Governor of Tokyo. In a result viewed as an endorsement of her handling of Tokyo's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, incumbent Yuriko Koike was re-elected for a second t ...

Selected works

* , 1995, serialized in ''

'' * , 1996, serialized in ''Bessatsu Friend'' * ''Promise'', 1996, serialized in ''Bessatsu Friend'' * ''Only You - Tobenai Tsubasa'' (Only You-翔べない翼-), 1997-2000, serialized in ''Bessatsu Friend'', published in 8 volumes * , 1998 * , 1998-1999, serialized in ''Bessatsu Friend Juliet DX'' * , 2000-2004, serialized in ''Bessatsu Friend'', published in 12 volumes (Completed, but later removed from stores and taken out of print because of plagiarism) * ''Silver'', 2004-2005, serialized in ''Bessatsu Friend'', published in 2 volumes (Canceled when earlier plagiarism came to light) * , published in 2 volumes * * * , 2007-2022, serialized in ''

Be Love ''Be Love'' is a Japanese monthly (bimonthly May 1982 – 2018) manga magazine targeting women published by Kodansha. It debuted in September 1980. It is one of the leading manga magazines for adult women, the second of its kind (the first being ...

'', published in 50 volumes * , since 2009, serialized in ''Be Love'', published in 2 volumes

External links

* * * (Japanese)

References

1975 births Female comics writers Japanese female comics artists Japanese women writers Living people Manga artists from Fukuoka Prefecture Manga Taishō People involved in plagiarism controversies Women manga artists {{manga-artist-stub