Ryōko Yamagishi

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.

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Julietta Suzuki

Suzuki Julietta is a Japanese manga artist born in the Fukuoka Prefecture. Her pen name comes from a character named Julietta Sakamoto from the seinen manga series, Air Master.
She likes cats, koalas, and sharks. According to an interview with Hakusensha, she first started drawing when she was in her second year of elementary school in a sketchbook of Japonica.
During her free time, she meets her friends, goes for a drink, or out for a meal. She states that although she doesn't read much, she enjoys works by Junji Itō. Her favourite character is Ashia and mentions that male characters are easier to draw in general.

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Moto Hagio

Moto Hagio (萩尾望都 Hagio Moto) is a manga artist born in Ōmuta, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, though she currently lives in Saitama Prefecture.
She is considered a "founding mother" of modern shōjo manga, and a member of the Year 24 Group (24-Gumi). She helped pioneer modern shōjo manga, modern science fiction manga, and BL manga. In addition to being an "industry pioneer", her body of work "shows a maturity, depth and personal vision found only in the finest of creative artists". She has been described as "the most beloved shōjo manga artist of all time."

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Riyoko Ikeda

Riyoko Ikeda (池田理代子) is a Japanese manga author and soprano singer.
As one of the 24-gumi, she has written and illustrated many shōjo manga, many of which are based on European historical events, such as the French Revolution or the Russian Revolution.

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Kiriko Nananan

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Masami Tsuda

Tsuda (津田雅美) is a tea-loving, crazy manga-ka who lives in Japan. Her most famous work that has been translated into several languages is Kare Kano (or His and Her Circumstances).

Tsuda likes operas, historical sites, and classic children's tales.
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Mihona Fujii

Mihona Fujii (藤井みほな in Japanese) is a Japanese shōjo mangaka. Her debut work was Mujaki na mama de, published in the 1990 autumn issue of Ribon Original. Her works have been published in Ribon and, recently, Margaret, where her latest series, Tokyo Angels runs.
She is best known for her manga GALS!, which was adapted into a TV anime series under the name Super GALS! Kotobuki Ran

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Saou Ichikawa

Saou Ichikawa graduated from the School of Human Sciences, Waseda University. Her bestselling debut novel, Hunchback, won the Bungakukai Prize for New Writers, and she is the first author with a physical disability to receive the Akutagawa Prize, one of Japan’s top literary awards. She has congenital myopathy and uses a ventilator and an electric wheelchair. Ichikawa lives outside Tokyo.
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Battan

Battan (native name: ばったん) is a mangaka from Japan.
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Macoto Takahashi

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.
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Kabi Nagata

Nagata Kabi is a Japanese manga artist best known for My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness. Nagata has been drawing for as long as she can remember.
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Naoko Kodama

Name (in native language): コダマナオコ
Circle: Monaco Meister (モナコマイスター)
Zodiac: Scorpio
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Suehiro Maruo

Suehiro Maruo ( 丸尾末広) is a Japanese manga author and illustrator.
Maruo graduated from junior high school in March 1972 but dropped out of senior high school. At the age of 15 he moved to Tokyo and began working for a bookbinder. At 17, he made his first manga submission to Weekly Shōnen Jump, but it was considered by the editors to be too graphic for the magazine's format and was subsequently rejected. Maruo temporarily removed himself from manga until November 1980 when he made his official debut as a manga artist in Ribon no Kishi (リボンの騎士) at the age of 24. It was at this stage that the young artist was finally able to pursue his artistic vision without such stringent restrictions over the visual content of his work. Two years later, hi
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Yukari Ichijo (一条ゆかり), born 19 September 1949 in Okayama, Japan) is a Japanese shōjo and josei manga artist.

She debuted in 1968 with Yuki no Serenade. In 1986 she received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for Yūkan Club,[1] and in 2007, she received an Excellence Prize in manga at the Japan Media Arts Festival for Pride.[2]

Several of her series have been dramatized, including Yūkan Club as an anime OVA and Designer and Tadashii Ren'ai no Susume as high-rated live-action television dramas.[3] A live-action film based on her work Pride was released in 2009.

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Suehiro Maruo

Suehiro Maruo ( 丸尾末広) is a Japanese manga author and illustrator.
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Fumiko Takano (高野文子, Takano Fumiko) is a Japanese cartoonist. She is considered an important figure of the manga 'New Wave' of the late 70's and early 80's.
Takano got interested in making manga in high school, when she discovered the influential work of Moto Hagio. She later moved to Tokyo, where she studied to become a nurse and worked as such for a couple of years. During that time, she continued drawing amateur manga (doujinshi).
Her professional debut happened in 1979, when her story Zettai Anzen Kamisori was published in 'June', an alternative manga magazine coming out of the doujinshi scene. She also collaborated with more mainstream shōjo manga magazines, like 'Petit Flower' and 'Seventeen', while working as a secretary at the small
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