I am still not willing to make a list of all the mangas I've read, but I will list some of my absolute favorites, including the mangakas I adore. x3

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Arina Tanemura

I love, love, LOVE her. Words cannot convey nor can they express the extent to which I adore her. She is my absolute favorite mangaka and I will forever love her and her works. It's odd though because I'm more of a fan of her early-on/amateur/rougher works that are lesser known than her more famous ones that she did when she became more of a professional. For example, I prefer ION and Firecracker's Melancholy over Full Moon wo Sagashite or Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, even though I love those as well. xD

But anyhoo...

My absolute favorite manga EVER was written by her:

ION

Ion was her first real manga that she had ever written. Being her first manga she felt it was really rough but she loved it anyway. The translated version of her exact quote at the end of ION in which she commented on it was, "Ion-chan is a miracle girl for me too because she's given me lots of unbelievable happiness. Though this early work is unskilled and embarrasing, I really like it." I love Ion's character and personality and aspire to be the type of girl she is. She has a pure heart and charming innocence that you just can't resist. She avidly and earnestly persists and fights for her love without giving up. She is definitely the type of person I admire and would hope to become. I can read this manga over and over again and still feel the same way I felt when I first read it. That feeling is hard to come by. Arina Tanemura is most definitely one of my most beloved and cherished idols and I sincerely and wholeheartedly thank her from the bottom of my heart for having written Ion, because she's a miracle girl for me as well.