is a Japanese manga artist, who is the creator of the now completed manga Elemental Gelade, which finished with eighteen volumes and was adapted into a 26-episode anime television series, and its spinoff manga Elemental Gelade: Flag of Blue Sky. She is also recognized for creating the manga adaptation of the video game ', which was later adapted into an anime entitled Star Ocean EX.
Before her career as a manga artist took off, she started out working as an assistant to Kozue Amano, creator of Aria.