Tokyo Anime Award
is a Japanese screenwriter. She has written and supervised numerous screenplays for anime series, live-action dramas and films. Her major works include "Kaleido Star", "Aria", "Maria-sama ga Miteru", "D.Gray-man", "K-On!", "Bakuman" and "Girls und Panzer". In more recent works, she has supervised the screenplays for "Majestic Prince", "Non Non Biyori", "A Town Where You Live", "Tamako Market", "Yowamushi Pedal" and "Castle Town Dandelion". In films, she wrote the screenplay for "The Cat Returns", the original films that would make up "", Kyoto Animation’s hit anime film "A Silent Voice", and the film adaptations of Osamu Tezuka's "Buddha", the second film of which was given a stamp of approval by the Dalai Lama. She wrote the story for the manga series "Tokyo Mew Mew" along with illustrator Mia Ikumi. Among her works, she was recognized for Best Screenplay/Original Work for "Girls und Panzer" at the Tokyo Anime Award Festival in 2014, and she won another Best Screenplay/Original Work award in 2017. In 2018, she wrote the screenplay for "Violet Evergarden" which aired on TV in Japan and is licensed by Netflix.