Template:Short description Template:Infobox comics creator Template:Nihongo is a Japanese manga artist and author of long-running shōjo manga Glass Mask.
Life
She was born in Nishinomiya, Japan and grew up in Osaka. She lived nearby a rental bookstore (kashi-hon) in her childhood and started drawing manga herself, when she had too many unpaid bills at a rental bookstore and her mother forbid her to continue reading manga. Miuchi made her professional debut as a manga artist in 1967, aged only 16, with the manga Yama no Tsuki to Kodanuki in the shōjo magazine Margaret. Her early debut as a highschool-aged manga artist inspired Yukari Ichijo to start a professional career as a manga artist at the time. She became famous for publishing short stories in the early 1970s, among them also horror manga.[1] Her 1975 short story Shiroi Kagebōshi is considered a classic of shōjo horror manga.[2]
Her biggest success came in 1976, when she began the long-running and ongoing series Glass Mask (Glass no Kamen) about a girl becoming a famous theater actress. The manga has been adapated into a stage play, a live-action TV series and an anime series.[1]
She won the Kodansha Manga Award (1982) for Youkihi-den[3] and the Japan Cartoonists Association Award (1995) for Glass Mask.
Works
Series
- Moeru Niji (燃える虹), 1970
- 13-gatsu no Higeki (13月の悲劇), 1971
- Amaranth no Joō (アマランスの女王), 1972
- Harukanaru Kaze to Hikari (はるかなる風と光), 1973–1974
- Kujaku-iro no Kanaria (孔雀色のカナリア), 1973–1974
- Shira-yuri no Kishi (白ゆりの騎士), 1974–1975
- Glass Mask (ガラスの仮面, Garasu no Kamen), since 1976, serialized in Hana to Yume and Bessatsu Hana to Yume
- Saint Alice Teikoku (聖アリス帝国, Sei-Arisu Teikoku), 1976–1978
- Bara Monogatari (バラ物語), 1979
- Yōkihi-den (妖鬼妃伝), 1981
- Dynamite Milk Pie (ダイナマイト・みるく・パイ, Dainamaito Miruku Pai), 1982
- Amaterasu (アマテラス), 1986–1995
One-shots
- Yama no Tsuki to Kodanuki to (山の月とこだぬきと), 1967
- Shiroi Kagebōshi (白い影法師), 1975, published in Mimi
- Dynamite Milkpie
- Futari no Melody
- Kaerazaru Hyuuga
- Majou Medea
- Niji no Ikusa
- Oujo Alexandra
- Pollyana's Knight
- Shiroi Kageboshi