Wataru Yoshizumi

nihongo|Wataru Yoshizumi|吉住渉|Yoshizumi Wataru is a Japanese mangaka. She was born as nihongo|Mari Nakai|中井 真里|Nakai Mari on June 18, 1963 in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated with a degree in economics from Hitotsubashi University.

Yoshizumi started her career as a mangaka while working as an office lady. Her debut manga was a yomikiri (short story) called "Radical Romance" that was published in 1984, in the summer issue of Ribon Original. She is known as a social mangaka,Fact|date=September 2007 and is a good friend of fellow mangakas Naoko Takeuchi,Fact|date=January 2008 Ai Yazawa, Miho Obana, and Megumi Mizusawa. [ann person|id=2055. Accessed 2007-08-22.]

Yoshizumi currently (as of 2007) has her works published in both "Ribon" and "Chorus".

Works

* "Quartet Game": This tankōbon contains three early short stories. Along with the title story, the other stories are "Another Day" and "Heart Beat".
* "Handsome na Kanojo" ("Handsome Girl") (9 volumes): Several volumes of this series include some more early short stories, including Wataru's debut work, "Radical Romance".
* "Marmalade Boy" (8 volumes)
* "Kimi Shika Iranai" ("I Don't Need Anyone But You") (2 volumes)
* "Mint na Bokura" ("We Are Mint") (6 volumes)
* "Random Walk" (3 volumes)
* "Ultra Maniac" (5 volumes)
* "Datte Suki Nandamon" ("Because I Love You") (2 volumes)
* "PxP" (one-shot)
* "Happiness" (one-shot)
* "Baby It's You" (one-shot)
* "Cherish" (1 volume)
* "Spicy Pink"

References

External links

* [http://www.swb.de/~zahara/yo/yo.html Fan Site Dedicated to the Works of Wataru Yoshizumi]