Nao Yazawa
Biography. One of Yazawa's earliest manga works was a "dojinshi" work called "Itadaki! Panther" which ran in a small monthly magazine called "Pyon Pyon". Yazawa started with Shogakukan in 1990, during which she released "Wedding Peach". "Wedding Peach" ran in "Ciao" magazine from 1994 to 1996, published by Shogakukan for six tankōbon volumes, and was adapted into an anime series. She worked on several other stories until 2000.In 2003, she released the shojo manga "Nozomi", a story about a girl who makes a wish upon a falling star and meets a demon who teaches her about love . It was the first manga she drew for English readers. She attended Anime Expo that year to promote "Nozomi" and "Wedding Peach". In 2010, she released "Mizuki" through Digital Manga Publishing. The story is about a teenage girl who transforms into a devil whenever she gets angry and must fight a bevy of evil monsters. In 2011, she released "Moon and Blood" on Digital Manga Publishing in English prior to the Japanese release. "Moon and Blood" is about a teen vampire guy who stays with a family. In 2012, she begin teaching courses on how to make manga in Tokyo ; this led to her creating online English courses as well as teaching overseas through Japan Foundation Toronto. In 2013, she published her autobiographical four-panel manga "Go-Go Nao-P" in English. She self-published the post-apocalyptic "Shinku-Chitai" ("The Isolated Zone") manga which was picked up by a German monthly magazine "".