Yun Kōga
, better known by her pen name is a Japanese manga artist. She is married to fellow manga artist Tatsuneko, from whom he took the name of . She is a graduate of Mita Senior High School, Tokyo. She currently lives in Setagaya, Tokyo with her husband and daughter. Profile. She began her career as a dōjinshi artist creating dōjinshi for works such as "Saint Seiya", "Captain Tsubasa" and "Maōden". She debuted in a commercial magazine with the original work "Metal Heart" (serialized in Kobunsha's "Comic VAL" from November 1986). After her debut, she continued to contribute on numerous  dōjin works. However, the later disbanding of a dōjin circle, Yajō Teikoku, she had founded with Maki Chikura, led to her taking numerous breaks from her commercial works. Due to this, there were incomplete works penned by her during this period. During her years in middle school, she had been a fan of Masami Kurumada's manga series "Ring ni Kakero", "Fūma no Kojirō", "Saint Seiya" (all serialized in "Weekly Shōnen Jump") and "B't X" (serialized in "Monthly Shōnen Ace"), sending Kurumada numerous fan letters asking to meet him, after which Kurumada finally agreed, inviting her to his workplace. When  asked about her penname in an interview in the September 2006 issue of "Puff", she responded that she had originally thought of making it Jun Kōga, but subsequently changed it to Yun Kōga. Among her noted works is "Loveless", which has been serialized in "Monthly Comic Zero Sum" since 2002 and is ongoing, as well as her work . She has also worked as an illustrator on the noted literary magazine "Faust". In 2007, she contributed the character designs to the Sunrise anime series, "Mobile Suit Gundam 00".