is a Japanese manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 artist born in Urawa

Urawa, Saitama

was a city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, until it merged into the city of Saitama together with two other cities, Omiya and Yono, on May 1, 2001. In 2003, the former area of Urawa became Urawa-ku, Midori-ku, Minami-ku, and Sakura-ku, which are wards of the city of Saitama...

 (now Saitama

Saitama, Saitama

' is the capital and the most populous city of Saitama Prefecture in Japan, situated in the south-east of the prefecture. Its area incorporates the former cities of Urawa, Ōmiya, Yono and Iwatsuki. It is a city designated by government ordinance...

), Saitama Prefecture

Saitama Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of the island of Honshu. The capital is the city of Saitama.This prefecture is part of the Greater Tokyo Area, and most of Saitama's cities can be described as suburbs of Tokyo, to which a large amount of residents commute each day.- History...

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. She graduated from Saitama Prefectural Dai-Ichi Girls High School. Akaishi then attended Musashino Art University

Musashino Art University

is a university in Kodaira, western Tokyo founded in 1962 and has roots going back to 1929.Teikoku Art School was founded in 1929; in 1948 it became Musashino Art School , and in 1962 it became Musashino Art University...

 where she graduated with a degree in commercial plastic model design. In 1979, she won first place in the Shogakukan Shinjin Comic Award contest.

Akaishi's debut story, Marshmallow Tea wa Hitori de, appeared in the January 1980 issue of Bessatsu Shōjo Comic

Betsucomi

, formerly known as Bessatsu Shōjo Comic, is a monthly Japanese shōjo manga magazine published by Shogakukan, originally aimed at young girls, but increasingly marketed to older teens and young women. It is released on the 13th of each month...

. Her story, One More Jump, won the 1994 Shogakukan Manga Award

Shogakukan Manga Award

The is one of Japan's major manga awards, sponsored by Shogakukan Publishing. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga since 1955 and features candidates from a number of publishers.The current award categories are:...

 for children's manga.

Manga (Story and Art)

• "Alto" no "A"
• Akatsuki no Aria
• Alexander Daiou - Tenjou no Oukoku
• Alpen Rose
  Alpen Rose
  is a shōjo manga series created by Michiyo Akaishi. The story was adapted into an anime by Tatsunoko Productions in 1985, with character designs by Akemi Takada.- Summary :...
  
  
• Amakusa 1637
• Asterisk
  Asterisk (manga)
  is a manga by Michiyo Akaishi.-Story:, teenager, follows her sister, a seer who seems to be fleeing from something, from town to town; they've got no parents, as both had been killed several years before, and they've got very few friends, as they rarely stay in the same city for long...
  
  
• Cinema no Teikoku (or Cinema Empire)
• Desert Storm
• Fair Lady wa Namida wo Nagasu
• Fushigi no Rin
• Hime 100% (or Super Girl)
• Naisho no Half Moon
• One More Jump
• Private Actress (or P.A.)
• Saint
• Shichou Tooyama Kyouka
• Silent Eye
• Ten yori mo Hoshi yori mo
• Towa kamo shirenai
• Video J
• Yoru ga Owaranai

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