Yukari Ichijo

Yukari Ichijo is a Japanese shoujo and josei manga artist. She debuted in 1968 with Yuki no Serenade. In 1986 she received the Kodansha Manga Award for shoujo for Yuukan Club, and in 2007, she received an Excellence Prize in manga at the Japan Media Arts Festival for Pride. Several of her series have been dramatized, including Yuukan Club as an anime OVA and Designer and Tadashii Ren'ai no Susume as high-rated live-action television dramas.