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is a shōjo
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born in Tokyo, Japan. Her best-known work was ''
Kodomo no Omocha is a Japanese manga series by Miho Obana. The series was adapted as an OVA by J.C. Staff and released on December 16, 1995, by Shueisha under their Ribon Video label. An anime television series was produced by NAS and TV Tokyo, animated ...
'', also known as ''Kodocha'', which was published in ''
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'' magazine, and won the
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for shōjo in 1998. Other works include ''Partner'', ''Andante'' and '' Honey Bitter''.


Biography

Obana began her
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career as an assistant to
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, the creator of ''
Chibi Maruko-chan is a manga series written and illustrated by Momoko Sakura. The series depicts the simple, everyday life of Momoko Sakura, a young girl everyone calls ''Maruko'', and her family in suburban Japan in the year 1974. Maruko is a troublemak ...
''. In 1990 she debuted with a
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manga, ''Mado no Mukō'', which was published in the autumn 1990 issue of '' Ribon Bikkuri''. Later stories would appear in ''Ribon Original'' and ''Ribon'' magazines. In 1994, she authored ''
Kodomo no Omocha is a Japanese manga series by Miho Obana. The series was adapted as an OVA by J.C. Staff and released on December 16, 1995, by Shueisha under their Ribon Video label. An anime television series was produced by NAS and TV Tokyo, animated ...
'', a shojo manga series about a child actress who interacts with an aloof elementary school boy. The series won the
Kodansha Manga Award is one of Japan's major manga awards. The event is sponsored by publisher Kodansha. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga in its third iteration since 1977. Categories The award was originally called the until 1968. In 1970, it was ...
for shojo in 1998, and was adapted to an anime television series ''Kodocha'' that ran for 102 episodes. Within the TV series, there is a character named after her. The manga ran until 1998, totaling 10
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volumes. In 1999, she wrote a one-shot called ''Mizu no Yakata'' which focuses on the drama story that characters Sana and Naozumi of ''Kodomo no Omocha'' starred in. In 2015, ''Kodocha'' was adapted into a stage play. She also released a ''Kodocha'' one-shot for the 60th anniversary of ''Ribon''. In 1999, she authored ''Partner'', a drama series about a two pairs of twins who are classmates and friends when one of them is killed by a drunk driver. ''Partner'' was noted for its dark, mature, and disturbing tone, and ran through 2000 in ''Ribon'', and compiled into 3 tankōbon volumes. In 2001, she worked on ''Andante'', a story about a girl who falls in love with her stepbrother but a family friend whose parents have died comes to live with them. It was serialized in ''Ribon'' through 2002, and compiled into 3 tankōbon volumes. In 2003, she worked on ''Pochi'', which is about a junior high school girl who is stressed about life and her classmate whose mother treats him as a pet dog. In 2004, Obana started a ''
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'' manga called '' Honey Bitter'', about a girl who was mistreated by her ex-boyfriend but then has to deal with him as a coworker in their aunt's detective agency. The manga was serialized in ''
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'' from February 2004 to December 2018, and occasionally appeared in the
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charts for top manga. She also wrote some manga for the josei magazine ''
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''. In November 2008, Obana took a hiatus from making manga because of her pregnancy and worsening
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; she resumed working on ''Honey Bitter'' in November 2009. In 2010, celebrating her 20th anniversary of her debut, she authored ''Deep Clear'', a two-part crossover story with characters from ''Kodomo no Omocha'' and ''Honey Bitter''.


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