Japanese female comics artists

Naoko Takeuchi (武内 直子, Takeuchi Naoko, born March 15, 1967) is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known as the author of Sailor Moon, one of the most popular manga series of all time.

Kozue Amano (天野 こずえ, Amano Kozue, born 26 May 1974) is a female Japanese manga artist. She is widely known as the creator of Aria, which proved to be a best-selling hit, and was adapted into an anime television series consisting of 3 seasons and 2 OVAs.

Akira Amano (天野 明, Amano Akira, born 1973) is a Japanese mangaka known for the shōnen series Reborn!.

Riyoko Ikeda (池田 理代子, Ikeda Riyoko, born December 18, 1947) is a Japanese manga artist and singer. She is included in the Year 24 Group. She was one of the most popular Japanese comic artists in the 1970s, being best known for The Rose of Versailles.

Momoko Sakura (さくら ももこ, Sakura Momoko) (8 May 1965 – 15 August 2018) was the pen name of a Japanese manga artist from Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture. She was best known as the creator of the long-running manga Chibi Maruko-chan.

Hiromu Arakawa (荒川 弘, Arakawa Hiromu) is the male pen name of Hiromi Arakawa (荒川 弘美, Arakawa Hiromi, born May 8, 1973), a Japanese manga artist. She is best known for the manga Fullmetal Alchemist, which became a hit both domestically and internationally, and was adapted into two anime television series. The first loosely followed the source material and was released while the manga was still being written, and the second followed the events of the manga and was released after the manga was finished. She is also known for the manga adaptation of The Heroic Legend of Arslan novels.

Ai Yazawa (矢沢 あい, Yazawa Ai, born March 7, 1967) is a Japanese manga author. While most of Yazawa's manga is published in Japan by Shueisha, publishers of Ribon and Cookie (Nana was serialized in the latter), series like Paradise Kiss have appeared in non-Shueisha magazines such as Zipper, published by Shodensha.

Yana Toboso (枢 やな, Toboso Yana, born January 24, 1984) is a Japanese manga artist born in Warabi, Saitama Prefecture, Japan and currently resides in Yokohama. .

Yumiko Igarashi (いがらし ゆみこ, Igarashi Yumiko, born 26 August 1950 in Asahikawa, Hokkaidō) is a female Japanese manga artist. She illustrates the series Candy Candy.

Yōko Kamio (神尾 葉子, Kamio Yōko, born June 29, 1966) is a Japanese manga artist and writer. Her best known series Boys Over Flowers (花より男子, Hana Yori Dango), for which she received the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1996, is one of the best-selling manga series of all time and the best-selling shōjo manga. Her work has been translated and distributed in Asia, Europe, and North America.