is a Japanese ''shōjo''

manga artist A manga artist, also known as a mangaka (), is a Cartoonist, comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist before entering the indus ...

best known for ''

Wolf Girl and Black Prince is a Japanese shōjo manga series written by Ayuko Hatta. It was adapted into a drama CD in 2013. In 2014, the May issue of Shueisha's Bessatsu Margaret magazine announced that an anime television had been green-lit. The anime aired from Oc ...

''.

''Wolf Girl and Black Prince''

(''Ōkami shōjo to kuro ōji'') is Hatta's main work. It was serialised from 2011 to 2016 in ''

Bessatsu Margaret , or for short, is a shōjo manga magazine published monthly in Japan by Shueisha since 1964. The stories featured in it are noted to have an emphasis on character growth, focusing on themes of interpersonal relationships and settings of ever ...

'' magazine by publisher

Shūeisha is a Japanese publishing company headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. Shueisha is the largest publishing company in Japan. It was established in 1925 as the entertainment-related publishing division of Japanese publisher Shogakukan. The ...

and collected in 16 ''

tankōbon A is a standard publishing format for books in Japan, alongside other formats such as ''shinsho'' (17x11 cm paperback books) and ''bunkobon''. Used as a loanword in English, the term specifically refers to a printed collection of a manga that w ...

'' volumes. The series is about 17-year old Erika who tells her friends the lie that she is dating her attractive classmate Kyōya. She asks him to play along and pretend to be her boyfriend. Kyōya agrees but seizes the opportunity to be mean to her and boss her around. Soon, however, they fall in love with each other and become a genuine couple. The manga was adapted as an audio drama, anime television series and live-action film directed by

Ryūichi Hiroki is a Japanese film director. He won critical acclaim for '' 800 Two Lap Runners''. Film critic and researcher Alexander Jacoby has described Hiroki as "one of the modern Japanese cinema's most intelligent students of character". Biography ''Pink ...

. The manga has been published in France by Kurokawa and in Germany by Kazé.

''Bye-bye Liberty''

(''Bai bai ribatī'') spans four volumes, making it Hatta's second-longest work to date. From 2016 to 2017 it also appeared in ''

'' first. Like ''Wolf Girl and Black Prince'', the story is about a schoolgirl and her male schoolmate who can't stand each other at first but eventually fall in love with each other. This time it is the girl, Rina or Lina, who at first has no interest in romance in general and the boy next door, Takumi, in particular. To fend off a bothersome female suitor, Takumi pretends to be Rina's boyfriend and kisses her. However, for Rina, Takumi is nothing more than an unlikable womanizer. Only by and by her attitude towards him begins to change. ''Bye-bye Liberty'' has been released in French by Kurokawa and in German by Kazé.

''Ima Koi: Now I'm in Love''

''Ima Koi: Now I'm in Love'' (, ''Ima, koi o shite imasu'', literally "I am in love now") is Hatta's latest manga. Its serialisation in ''

'' began in 2019 and 7 ''tankōbon'' volumes have been published so far. Once more, the story is about conflicted feelings between a schoolgirl and a schoolboy.

Selected other manga

* , ''Haibara-kun wa gokigen naname'', 2018–2019 * , ''Guru guru meguru'', 2010 * , ''Warui ko no mikata'', 2009 * , ''Kimi o chūshin ni sekai wa mawaru'', 2009 * , ''Boku no sekai kimi no riaru'', 2008 * , ''Hiyoko romanchika'', 2007 * , ''Ōdā wa boku de yoroshii desu ka?'', 2007

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hatta, Ayuko Japanese female comics artists Manga artists Living people Women manga artists Year of birth missing (living people)