Kōsuke Fujishima
Before starting work on "Oh My Goddess!", Kōsuke Fujishima created the manga "You're Under Arrest!". Miyuki Kobayakawa, one of the principal characters of "You're Under Arrest!", was featured as a goddess character in a four-panel gag strip in the manga. While the exact relationship between this initial goddess character and the "Oh My Goddess!" series is unclear, there are suggestions that "Oh My Goddess!" can be viewed as a spin-off series. Irrespective of the origin, the concept of a goddess "as a job" interested Fujishima, leading to the first appearance of the "Oh My Goddess!" series in the September 1988 issue of the magazine "Monthly Afternoon".