Gender: Female

Zodiac: Libra

Blood Type: A

One of Year 24 Group. In 1983, she won the Kodansha Manga Award for shoujo for Hi Izuru Tokorono Tenshi, and in 2007 she won Grand Prize for the 11th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize for Maihime Τερψιχόρα (The Dancing Girl; Terpsichore)

Her works often have occult themes, although her most popular are Arabesque, about Russian ballet, and Hi Izuru Tokorono Tenshi