is a Japanese manga artist.
Soryo was born in Beppu, Oita, Japan. She is a graduate of the Oita prefectural Geijutsu Midorigaoka High School. She was born into the home of a master of the Kanze school of Noh. In her childhood she liked to draw pictures of horses and things but had no special interest in manga.
While enrolled in fashion college, she happened across Shogakukan's Rookie of the Year Contest and applied to raise money for the Sà Âen fashion contest. There she received an honorable mention, and subsequently made her debut as a professional manga artist with "Hidamari no Hà Âmonsha" ("Sunspot Visito") published in the April 1982 edition of Bessatsu Shà Âjo Comic. For a couple of years, she worked as an assistant for manga artist Fuyumi Ogura.
She made herself a name as a shà Âjo manga artist. In 1988, she was awarded the Shogakukan Manga Award for shà Âjo manga for Boyfriend. In 2001, she switched to mainly publishing seinen manga, working for the manga magazine Morning. Her manga series Cesare centers around the infamous Borgia family of the Italian Renaissance and Cesare Borgia himself.
Her works translated into English include Mars and ES (Eternal Sabbath).