Chikako Urano (Japanese: 浦éÂÂÃ¥ÂÂè³ÂÃ¥ÂÂ, born 20 December 1946) is a Japanese mangaka. She is best known for the series Attack No.1 (1968âÂÂ1970).
Urano was born in Osaka. As a teenager, she started publishing comics in the Kashi-hon market. In 1966, she published her first short story "Shibà  zero no hi" in a commercial manga magazine, Bessatsu Margaret. She continued working for this magazine and its sister magazine Margaret. She became famous with sports manga. In the latter, she published her most successful series Attack No. 1 from 1968 until 1970. This volleyball manga was also adapted into an anime TV series and contributed, together with the series Sign ha V by Akira Mochizuki, to a hype around women's volleyball in Japan at the time.
Her manga Kyà Âfu no Yodogà  (1970) was inspired by the Yodogà  Hijacking Incident that same year.
Her husband was the manga artist Yuu Koto and her brother-in-law the manga artist Kei Sadayasu.