Yumiko Igarashi ( いがらし ゆみこ, Igarashi Yumiko; born 26 August 1950 in Asahikawa, Hokkaido) is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known for illustrating the manga series Candy Candy.
Waki Yamato (Japanese: 大和 和紀, Hepburn: Yamato Waki; born March 13, 1948) [1 ] is a Japanese manga artist. She debuted in 1966 with the short story Dorobō Tenshi. [1 ] [2 ] [3 ]
She is one of the Year 24 Group, a collection of female artists who innovated shōjo (girls') manga throughout the 1970s. [1 ] [2 ] Her major works include Hi Izuru Tokoro no Tenshi and Maihime Terpsichora.
Yamato was produced by Takaiwa Tan, the chairman of Tōei, and Kadokawa Haruki, a maverick producer who in the 1970s and 1980s introduced into the Japanese film industry new marketing strategies for big-budget spectaculars.
Whoever are your parents, you must accept your destiny and stand on your own feet---I wanted to say so. When I started to write the story, it was two years after my mother passed away.