Those who think to judge the gender of a mangaka by the content or art style of a given manga may be shocked to encounter some of the surprisingly female mangaka listed below.
Note that several actually write under male names – rest assured, all are confirmed as female:
Kaworu Watashiya (Kodomo no Jikan)
Ashika Sakura (Sekirei)
Kaneda Mario (Girls Bravo)
Hiromu Arakawa (Full Metal Alchemist)
Yoko Sanri (B-gata H-kei)
Yuuto (Hanamaru Kindergarten)
Hajime Kazu (Luck Stealer)
Daisuke Higuchi (Whistle!)
Tsukasa Oshika (Shoot!)
Jiro Suzuki (Yawaraka Sangokushi Tsukisase!! Ryofuko-chan)
Kenichi Sakura (Dragon Drive)
Kazuki Yamato (Godhand Teru)
Kaoru Mori (Emma)
Kazuya Minekura (Saiyuuki Reload)
Kei Toume (Lament of the Lamb)
Karino Takatsu (Working!!)
Takada Chigusa (Kami to Sengoku Seitokai)
Yellow Tanabe (Kekkaishi)
Iqura Sugimoto (Summer Wars Manga)
Ayako Sato (Kindaichi Case Files)
Norio Sakurai (Mitsudo Moe)
Renjuro Kindaichi (Hare+Guu)
I went ‘oh s♥♥t really?’ when I first found out Rumiko Takahashi was a girl.
Pretty much sums up my reaction as well. And when I learnt that Yuunagi Kahoru was a girl too I was flabbergasted.
The only ones I was genuinely surprised about were Kaoru Mori and Kei Toume. The rest I knew were women or look like they were drawn by a woman. (Seriously, how could something like Saiyuki be confused for a man’s work?)
It is becoming more and moe apprent a lot of my favoite manga are female written or illistrated.
Actually this is more surprising because many of these series you won’t expect a woman to draw, tells you how many opened minded women are out there and we definitely needed to have WAY MORE!!
YAY JNJ!!!