is a female
Japanese manga artist and
novelist
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. She is best known for the series ''
Tokyo Love Story'', which was adapted as a live-action television series. She won the 1983
Kodansha Manga Award for general manga for ''
P.S. Genki Desu, Shunpei''
and the 1992
Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga for ''
Kazoku no Shokutaku'' and ''
Asunaro Hakusho
is a Japanese manga series by Fumi Saimon that was serialized in Shogakukan's '' Big Comic Spirits''. It won the Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga in 1992.
Cast
* Hikari Ishida as Narumi Sonoda
* Michitaka Tsutsui as Tamotsu Kakei
* ...
''.
She is married to manga artist
Kenshi Hirokane.
References
External links
*
Profile at The Ultimate Manga Page
Japanese female comics artists
Female comics writers
Living people
Women manga artists
Manga artists from Tokushima Prefecture
People from Tokushima (city)
Winner of Kodansha Manga Award (General)
1957 births
Japanese women writers
Japanese writers
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