Creator
Keiko Takemiya
竹宮惠子
Mangaka
She is a Japanese mangaka and the previous president of Kyoto Seika University. She is also part of the Year 24 group. She debuted in "COM" magazine by winning "Monthly Newcomer Award" for "Friendship of the Heart." In December 1970, she published a short story titled Sanroomu Nite ("In the Sunroom") in Bessatsu Shoujo, which is possibly the first shounen-ai manga ever published and contains the earliest known male-male kiss in shoujo manga. Her inspiration to become a mangak…
