Yuu Watase is well known to her fans for works like Ceres, Celestial Legend and Mysterious Play. Her fame comes mainly from anime series released.

Yayoi Ogawa is known as the author of Baby Pop, Tramps Like Us (Kimi wa Pet), Kiss & Never Cry and other josei.

Yuuki Obata started drawing manga very early but released pro works much later. Readers know her mostly for We Were There (Bokura ga Ita).

Kei Kusunoki is a pen name of Japanese mangaka Mayumi Ohashi well known for horror and comedy mangas. She writes manga both for women (shoujo) and men (seinen, shounen) and has released 30+ works lately. Her most famous mangas are Girls Saurus, Girls Saurus DX, 100 Ways of an Exorcist, Bitter Virgin.

Kyousuke Motomi is a special shoujo mangaka. His works feature a realistic approach and character detailization. Full of humor and romance, they are basically written in the school life genre. Readers know him for Beast Master, Penguin Prince and Dengeki Daisy.

Mizu Sahara's manga focuses on characters' inner worlds. Her best mangas are Voices of a Distant Star and The Place Promised in Our Early Days.

The mangaka Arina Tanemura has attracted a lot of followers with her works like I.O.N, Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne and Searching for the Full Moon, especially enjoyed by girls.

Tsukasa Hojo is an author of many comedy mangas with adventurous or detective plots. His best known series are Cat's Eye, City Hunter and Angel Heart.

The popular mangaka Wataru Yoshizumi appeals to her young and slightly older women readers for over a dozen works published for the last 15 years.

Johji Manabe is an adventure manga author. His works organically combine fantasy and sci-fi, humor, romance and ecchi.