• Ashibe Yuuho
• est em
• Fukuhara Hiroko
• Ichikawa Jun
• Ikuko Hatoyama
• Macoto Takahashi
• Miyako Maki
• Mizuno Hideko
• Moto Hagio
• Mutsu Ako
• Naka Tomoko
• Riyoko Ikeda
• Takemiya Keiko
• Waki Yamato
• Yamagishi Riyoko
• Yoshiko Nishitani
• Yoshimi Uchida
• Yumiko Igarashi

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• Keiko Takemiya: Western filmmakers have been stealing story ideas from Takemiya-sensei for years without crediting her. She’s also one of those genre bending artists who can write and draw almost anything. She also helped popularize both science fiction and shounen-ai in manga. Her huge influence on manga continues today as she is a professor in manga studies at Kyoto Seika University before moving on to becoming university president. Not only has she advanced comics creation but she’s also helped develop the medium and encouraged others to further the medium in the process. Putting gender aside, few comics creators are more deserving of recognition than Takemiya-sensei!
• Momoko Sakura: She turned autobiographical anecdotes into one of Japan’s most recognizable manga properties: Chibi Maruko-chan. Thirty years after creating the character, Maruko-chan is still insanely popular. She just wrapped up what I personally think is one of the best comics about cultural exchange ever written: Chibi Maruko-chan - Kimi o Wasurenai yo which was easily one of the best comics of the year. If that’s not lifetime achievement, what is?!
• Rumiko Takahashi: If you read manga, you’ve read something by Takahashi-sensei at some point. She’s a certifiable hit maker who also stands as the best selling female comic creator of all time. For decades now she’s be a woman at the top of the shounen world writing stories that boys and girls young and old have gobbled up without abandon. Like comedy? There’s Ranma ½! Creepy folk tales? There’s Ningyo no Mori! How about action? She’s done that a couple times (InuYasha, Kyoukai no Rinne, etc). She’s even written adult-oriented romances like Maison Ikkoku. There’s nothing she can’t do.
• Nao Yazawa: After helping to contribute to the success of fledgling shoujo mangazine Ciao in the 90s with her magical girl series Wedding Peach, Yazawa-sensei has become a premiere cultivator of new talent by teaching manga classes in both Japanese and English. She also never forgets that while an art form, manga is also supposed to entertain.
• Koi Ikeno: She wrote a multi-generational paranormal drama that included a huge cast of characters and its own mythology for a decade plus and influenced an entire generation of female mangaka that followed her into publication.
• Ai Yazawa: She tells painfully true stories about modern life as a woman and yet somehow has written an incredibly diverse catalog that includes supernatural ghost stories (Kagen no Tsuki), comedies (Tenshi Nanka ja Nai), and one of the greatest feminist stories in the history of manga (NANA).
• Naoko Takeuchi: Oh have you heard of Sailor Moon? No? I don’t believe you. Name me another female superhero who has the same reach and recognizably as Sailor Moon and you’ll probably come up blank. But playing on Sailor Moon’s icon image is almost undermining Takeuchi-sensei’s skills. She mixed action, romance, and complicated mythology with a cast made up almost exclusively of teenage girls: heroes and villians both! She incorporated traditionally “girly” ideas into an action series and reinvented the magical girl genre in a way that set new standard that would be copied by dozens of other artists and anime producers. Few comic creators will ever single handily create a property as loved as Sailor Moon. She might not be nominated for Angouleme, but history will remember her!
• Ono Natsume (who created the house of five leaves, not simple, etc.)
• Nakamura Asumiko（J no Subete, Utsubora etc.)
• Kusumoto Maki (Renaitan, Ikasama Umigame Soup, etc.)
• Mizuno Hideko (fire, etc.)
• Hagio Moto (the poe clan, the heart of Thomas, Marginal, etc.)
• Aoike Yasuko (from eroica with love, The sons of Eve, etc.)
• Yamato Waki (Haikarasan ga Tooru, Bara Shishaku, Mon Cherie Coco, the tale of Genji, etc.)
• Panpanya (Ashizuri Suizokukan, etc.)
• Suzuki Shiho (Fune o Tateru, etc.)
• Higashimura Akiko (jellyfish princess, Kakukaku Shikajika, Omoni Naiteimasu, Meropon dashi, etc.)
• Yoshino Satsuki (Barakamon)
• Arakawa Hiromu (Full metal alchemist, Silver spoon, the heroic legend of Arslan)
• Ashibe Yuuho (Crystal Dragon, Akuma no Hanayome, etc.)
• Naka Tomoko (Hana no Bijohime, Fashion Fade, etc.
• Ikeda Riyoko (the Rose of versailles, Oniisama e, etc.)
• Ooshima Yumiko (the star of Cotton land, Banana bread pudding, etc.)
• Yamada Mineko (the Armageddon series, etc.)
• Sakata Yasuko (Basil-shi, Hokori Takaki Senjou, D Han report, etc.)
• Kumota Haruko (Itoshi no Nekkoke, Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu, Etc.)
• CLAMP (Tsubasa, xxxholic, X/1999, Tokyo Babylon, etc.)
• Saibara Rieko (Mainichi Kaasan, etc.)
• Zakk (Canis)
• Shimura Takako (Aoi Hana, etc.)
• Kawachi Haruka (Sekine-kun no Koi, Natsuyuki Rendevous, etc)
• Irie Aki (Ran to Haiiro no Sekai)
• Kodama Yuki (Sakamichi no Apollon, etc.)
• Okazaki Kyoko (helter-skelter, pink, etc.)
• Renaissance Yoshida (Akaneshinchi Hanaya Sange, etc.)
• Ooya Chiki (Ojamasan LiuLiu, Images, etc.)