is a Japanese shōjo

Shojo

The term refers to manga marketed to a female audience roughly between the ages of 10-18. The name romanizes the Japanese 少女 , literally: "little female". Shōjo manga covers many subjects in a variety of narrative and graphic styles, from historical drama to science fiction — often with a strong...

 manga artist

Mangaka

is the Japanese word for a comic artist or cartoonist. Outside of Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese...

. She made her manga debut in 1999 in Nakayoshi

Nakayoshi

is a shōjo manga magazine published by Kodansha in Japan. First published in December 1954, it is a long-running magazine with over 50 years worth of manga publication history. The target demographic for Nakayoshi is aimed at young girls between...

 Magazine with her award-winning manga Sakuranbo Kiss. She considers Otona ni Nuts (Instant Teen: Just Add Nuts

Instant Teen: Just Add Nuts

is a Japanese shōjo manga by Haruka Fukushima. The manga was published in English by Tokyopop; the Tokyopop version of the manga is out of print as of August 31, 2009....

) to be her masterpiece. Other works include Ai Ga Nakucha Ne!, Bibitte Mu-cho, Cherry Juice

Cherry Juice

is a romantic comedy manga series created by Haruka Fukushima, centered around a growing romance between two step-siblings, Minami and Otome. Cherry Juice was originally serialized in Nakayoshi, and was published by Kodansha in 2004. The first volume of the series was released in America by...

, Kedamono Damono

Kedamono Damono

is a shōjo manga written by Haruka Fukushima, and published by Kodansha. Kedamono Damono was serialized in the Japanese magazine Nakayoshi. All three volumes have been released in the US by TOKYOPOP. The book revolves around the relationship between a boy and a girl, but a twist in the plot...

, Fortune☆Cake, Young Mermaid, AAA and more recently Orange Planet, Kimi No Neiro, and Animal Official ; All of which are/were published in Nakayoshi.

Instant Teen: Just Add Nuts

is about Natsumi Kawashima, a fifth grader who can’t wait to grow up and get curves of her own. One day after eating a pack of odd pink nuts, which she earlier took from a lady in street, her wish of being older came true; The next day she had turned into a beautiful young woman. She later finds out that the nuts were an experiment by a college student named Dr. Yunosuke Morinomiya. Eating the nuts caused Natsumi to turn into a young adult. Four volumes.

Cherry Juice

is the story of Otome and Minami, two step-siblings who don't realise their feeling for one another. Minami is a popular boy who takes cooking at school, and Otome is an average girl who has a crush on a boy in her Kendo club, Amane. Together they experince a comedy love triangle. Cherry Juice's main focus is on the love lives of Minami and Otome, who are in love with other people.... or are they? Four volumes.

Orange Planet

is about Rui, a middle school student in love. One day, while delivering a love letter, Rui finds herself caught in a fire! Eisuke, the owner of the apartment that caught fire, says that since he saved Rui from the fire, that he should live in her home! This will be a problem for Rui, because her childhood friend, Tarou, lives next door and often comes into Rui's house unexpectedly. Will Rui be able to put up with Eisuke living in her home without being caught? Five volumes.

AAA (Triple A)

is about Ogata Aoi, the student council president of the most prestigious school in Japan: AAA . During the entrance exam to the school, a boy named Kuroda Hayato gave her a mechanical pencil (pacer) because she herself lost her pencil for the exam. He became her first love. Ironically, next to her school is CCC, the worst school in all of Japan. When she met a boy fighting at CCC's gates, he stole her pencil! Her life becomes furthermore difficult. Especially when the boy has the same name as her first love...
(four volumes)

Chocolate

Chocolate (チョコレート Chokoreeto) is about Chii, a girl who never experienced love. One day she meets Rei, the mysterious exchange student. Rei promised to teach Chii what love is. But the next day , he died leaving a diary for Chii. One year later, Chii goes to Tokyo with a friend from her grade school, Yuuto. She coincidently meets a boy who has the same face as Rei , Miki. Chii believed that Miki was Rei, so Miki tricked her and ripped his diary. In the next day, Miki tricked her again by saying "I'm sorry" to prank to her, and he found Chii's weakness, his face that was like Rei. Later, she found out that Miki is her roommate's boyfriend...end of chapter 1 ....(3 volumes completed)

Kimi No Neiro

Akira Tsubakiya has spent her whole life being told she looks like a boy. She’s super tall, she has a flat chest, and she’s not girly at all. In middle school, she made a promise with a boy who went to her cram school, Haru— a promise that they both would aim to get into the same high school, a prestigious academy. Haru told Akira that he likes girls with long hair, and since she started to fall for him, she grew it out. Now she’s graduating from middle school, and has decided to confess her feelings to Haru. Unfortunately, she finds out that he has a girlfriend—a super-cute, girly, long-haired girlfriend! Akira runs home and chops off all her hair, deciding that there’s no point to trying to be girly.
Fast forward to Akira’s first year in high school. She still wears a skirt, but she wears the top half of the guys’ uniform to school. She’s called “Prince Akira”, and all the girls are infatuated with her. Akira hasn’t seen Haru in a while, but she does bump into Haru’s “girlfriend”… who she discovers to be in fact a boy!

External links

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