Bessatsu Friend
is a Japanese manga artist. She took her pen name from one of the title characters in "Gatchaman" and made her debut in 1995 with "Punky Cake Junkie", which was published in the magazine "Bessatsu Friend DX Juliet". She is best known for "A Perfect Day for Love Letters", for which she received the 2005 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo manga, and "Knock Your Heart Out!". "A Perfect Day for Love Letters" was adapted as a live-action movie and has been licensed in English by Del Rey Manga.