Reiko Okano
Okano attended a graphic design school after graduating from high school and has never worked as a manga assistant. Her first serialized work was "Esther, Please" in 1982. In 1989, she won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo for "Fancy Dance". "Onmyōji", an original work by Baku Yumemakura, was drawn by Reiko Okano and received the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2001. She went on to produce a sequel version, "Onmyōji: Tamatebako", in the comic magazine "Melody". She is married to director Makoto Tezuka.