is a Japanese

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Life

Soryo was born in

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. She is a graduate of the Oita prefectural Geijutsu Midorigaoka High School. She was born into the home of a master of the Kanze school of Noh. In her childhood she liked to draw pictures of horses and things but had no special interest in manga. While enrolled in fashion college, she happened across Shogakukan's Rookie of the Year Contest and applied to raise money for the Sōen fashion contest. There she received an honorable mention, and subsequently made her debut as a professional manga artist with "Hidamari no Hōmonsha" ("Sunspot Visito") published in the April 1982 edition of ''

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''. For a couple of yours, she worked as an assistant for manga artist Fuyumi Ogura. She made herself a name as a

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artist. In 1988, she was awarded the

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for ''shōjo'' manga for ''

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''. In 2001, she switched to mainly publishing

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, working for the manga magazine ''Morning''. Her manga series '' Cesare'' centers around the infamous Borgia family of the Italian Renaissance and

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himself. Her works translated into English include ''

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'' and ''

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''.

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* * Women manga artists Japanese female comics artists Manga artists from Ōita Prefecture 1959 births Living people Female comics writers 20th-century Japanese writers 21st-century Japanese writers 20th-century Japanese women writers 21st-century Japanese women writers {{manga-artist-stub