Kyōko Okazaki (岡崎京子) is a Japanese cartoonist. In a relatively short career, spanning from 1983 to 1996, Okazaki established herself as a leading figure in josei manga, i.e. comics primarily targeting women. In particular, she was a major contributor to gyaru manga, a trend reclaiming 'girliness' into adult graphic novels. Okazaki is known for her unorthodox visual style and her bluntness in tackling topics such as sex, prostitution, bourgeois decadence and body dismorphia, against the backdrop of the opulent life in 80s and 90s Tokyo. Her most famous works are Pink (1989), River's Edge (1993-1994) and Helter Skelter (1995-1996), the latter also adapted into a live-action film. In 1996 Okazaki was hit by a car. The accident, from which she is
Ryōko Yamagishi (山岸凉子) is a Japanese manga author. Born in Hokkaido prefecture, she is part of the Year 24 Group together with Moto Hagio, Yumiko Ōshima and Keiko Takemiya.
She debuted in 1969 with Left and right (Jap: レフトアンドライト). Starting from 1971 she gathered attention with the ballet manga Arabesque (Jap: アラベスク), and from 1980 with Hi izuru no tokoro no tenshi (Jap: 日出処の天子), that also won the 7th Kodansha manga award. Her 1971 work Shiroi heya no futari is regarded as the first yuri manga. Her 1977 work Yōsei-ō (Jap: 妖精王) was animated in 1988. In 2000 she started the serialization of Maihime Terpsichora (Jap: 舞姫 テレプシコーラ) that in 2007 won the Gran Prize at the 11th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.
Macoto Takahashi was a Japanese painter, illustrator, and manga artist. His works of shōjo manga are noted for significantly influencing the aesthetic styles of that demographics.
