Kagami Yoshimizu

Yoshimizu also works under the pen name Tsukasa Suina.

• Birth Name — 美水 かがみ • Born — 7 October 1977 • Birthplace — Satte, Saitama, Japan • Works — Lucky Star

Yoshimizu was born on 1977 in Satte, Saitama, Japan. He attended Kasukabe Kyōei High School, a private academy in the city of Kasukabe, where he graduated as part of the 14th graduating class. From the time he was in junior high school, Yoshimizu enjoyed drawing, and in high school he began drawing manga featuring his classmates. While a member of the animation club in high school, he began seriously drawing manga and doing illustration work. After graduating from high school, he began attending a technical school and working as a graphic artist and working toward becoming a manga artist.

Around that time, Yoshimizu met Gō Katō, who later became an editor—and then editor-in-chief—at Comptiq. Katō appears in the Lucky Star manga series as the rabbit "Editor K". After that, Yoshimizu got commission work to do spot illustrations and stories in anthology comic releases, in addition to doing original manga stories to fill out empty spots in the magazine when manga series completed. One of the original series he created was Lucky Star, which became popular and was subsequently picked up as a regular series. The series had been on hiatus since 2014. On September 2, 2022, it was announced that Lucky Star would make a return. It began again on November 18, 2022 in the Mitaina! magazine. As of 2023, it runs in Comptiq.

• Warawanai Erika (Penguin Works, Windows 95/98, as Tsukasa Suina) • Cake x 3! Ichigo Ichie (Frau) • Lucky Star: Ryōō Gakuen Ōtōsai (Kadokawa Shoten, PlayStation 2, original design, general supervision, main character paste-up images)

• Boku to, Bokura no Natsu (in Bessatsu Comic Comp, not yet collected in tankōbon format) • Lucky Star (in Comptiq, Kadokawa Shoten) • Two series-within-a-series have also been published: • Akira's Kingdom (in Comp Ace) • Miyakawa Family Hunger (in Comptiq) • Shuffle! (Comic A la Carte, one volume, yonkoma comic anthology) • Akapro!!!: Cheerful Three Sisters Project (Character design, illustration and commercial four-panel comic strip, etc...) • Wolf Children Spin-off four-panel comic strip (in Comptiq)

• Maesetsu! (Original character design)