Masako Watanabe
She was noted in the 1960s for using pastel colors instead of the bright primary colors common at the time, and for pioneering both "shōjo" (written for teenage girls) horror stories with "Blue Foxfire" and "shōjo" mystery stories with "Glass no Shiro" ("Glass Castle"). In 1971, she received the Shogakukan Manga Award for "Glass no Shiro" and "Sei Rosalindo". In the 1980s, she turned from "shōjo" to sexually explicit "redisu-josei" (written for adult women) with such series as "Kinpeibai", which is based on a 19th-century Chinese erotic novel.