is a Japanese
manga artist
A is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. As of 2006, about 3,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan.
Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist be ...
and author of long-running
shōjo manga ''
Glass Mask''.
Life
She was born in
Nishinomiya
270px, Nishinomiya City Hall
270px, Aerial view of Nishinomiya city center
270px, Hirota Shrine
is a city located in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 484,368 in 218948 households and a population density of 4 ...
, Japan and grew up in
Osaka
is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of ...
. She lived nearby a rental bookstore (
kashi-hon) in her childhood and started drawing manga herself, when she had too many unpaid bills at a rental bookstore and her mother forbid her to continue reading manga. Miuchi made her professional debut as a manga artist in 1967, aged only 16, with the manga ''Yama no Tsuki to Kodanuki'' in the
shōjo magazine
''Margaret''. Her early debut as a highschool-aged manga artist inspired
Yukari Ichijo to start a professional career as a manga artist at the time. She became famous for publishing short stories in the early 1970s, among them also horror manga.
Her biggest success came in 1976, when she began the long-running and ongoing series
Glass Mask (Glass no Kamen) about a girl becoming a famous theater actress. The manga has been adapated into a stage play, a live-action TV series and an anime series.
She won the
Kodansha Manga Award
is an annual award for serialized manga
Manga ( Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in ea ...
(1982) for ''Youkihi-den''
and the
Japan Cartoonists Association Award (1995) for ''Glass Mask''.
Works
Series
* ''Moeru Niji'' (燃える虹), 1970
* ''13-gatsu no Higeki'' (13月の悲劇), 1971
* ''Amaranth no Joō'' (アマランスの女王), 1972
* ''Harukanaru Kaze to Hikari'' (はるかなる風と光), 1973–1974
* ''Kujaku-iro no Kanaria'' (孔雀色のカナリア), 1973–1974
* ''Shira-yuri no Kishi'' (白ゆりの騎士), 1974–1975
* ''Shiroi Kagebōshi'' (白い影法師), 1975
* ''
Glass Mask'' (ガラスの仮面, ''Garasu no Kamen''), since 1976
* ''Saint Alice Teikoku'' (聖アリス帝国, ''Sei-Arisu Teikoku''), 1976–1978
*''Bara Monogatari'' (バラ物語), 1979
* ''Yōkihi-den'' (妖鬼妃伝), 1981
* ''Dynamite Milk Pie'' (ダイナマイト・みるく・パイ, ''Dainamaito Miruku Pai''), 1982
* ''Amaterasu'' (アマテラス), 1986–1995
One-shots
*''Yama no Tsuki to Kodanuki to'' (山の月とこだぬきと), 1967
*''Dynamite Milkpie''
*''Futari no Melody''
*''Kaerazaru Hyuuga''
*''Majou Medea''
*''Niji no Ikusa''
*''Oujo Alexandra''
*''Pollyana's Knight''
*''Shiroi Kageboshi''
References
External links
Miuchi's homepage
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Women manga artists
Japanese female comics artists
Female comics writers
Japanese women writers
Winner of Kodansha Manga Award (Shōjo)
People from Osaka
1951 births
Living people
Manga artists from Osaka Prefecture
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