Sumomo Yumeka
Sumomo Yumeka is a Japanese manga artist, who also writes as Mizu Sahara. She writes in a variety of demographics, publishing yaoi manga as Sumomo Yumeka and seinen manga as Mizu Sahara. She is best known in the west for The Day I Became a Butterfly and Same Cell Organism, both under the Yumeka byline, and the manga adaptation of Voices of a Distant Star under Mizu Sahara.
Also recorded as Mizu Sahara
Sumomo Yumeka
- Born
- 1977 · Japan.
- Nationality
- Japan
- Occupation
- mangaka · illustrator · comics creator · penciller
- Fields
- comic · manga · illustration
- Languages
- Japanese
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Sumomo Yumeka is a Japanese manga artist, who also writes as Mizu Sahara. She writes in a variety of demographics, publishing yaoi manga as Sumomo Yumeka and seinen manga as Mizu Sahara. She is best known in the west for The Day I Became a Butterfly and Same Cell Organism, both under the Yumeka byline, and the manga adaptation of Voices of a Distant Star under Mizu Sahara.
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As Sumomo Yumeka
Her series My Girl is being adapted as a live-action television series which began broadcasting in October 2009.
• Kokoro Kikai • Soshite Hibi Koishiteku • Soshite Koi ga Hajimaru by Kei Tsukimura (illustrator only) • Natsukashi Machi no Rozione • Dousabou Seibutsu (published in English by Digital Manga Publishing as Same Cell Organism) • Chou ni Naru Hi (published in English by Digital Manga Publishing as The Day I Became a Butterfly) • Tengusin (published in English by Aurora Publishing as Tengu-Jin) • Nemunoki no Geshukusou • Kon no Ki Konoha • Kimi wa Boku no Taiyou • Hate ni Aru Kimi • Kaze Shinshutsu Shita • The Snake and the Boy (Mitoshōnen) • Boku wa Sakana
As Mizu Sahara
As Mizu Sahara
• Basu Hashiru (includes a series of shorts under the title Nanairo Sekai) • My Girl • Hoshi no Koe (written by Makoto Shinkai, illustrator only, published in English by Tokyopop as Voices of a Distant Star) • Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho (written Makoto Shinkai, illustrator only) • Watashitachi no Shiawase na Jikan (adaption of novel by Ji-Young Gong) • Tetsugaku Letra • Itsuya-san • Okashiratsuki
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Identity
Sumomo Yumeka is recorded as mangaka, illustrator, comics creator and penciller.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1977
Sumomo Yumeka born at Japan.
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- 1.Sumomo Yumeka. Anime News Network.
- 2."My Girl" será adaptado al dorama.
- 3.Yumeka, Sumomo. Same Cell Organism. June. 2012. 978-1-931712-35-4.
- 4.Yumeka, Sumomo. The Day I Become a Butterfly. Digital Manga Publishing. 2007. 978-1-56970-869-9.
- 5.Yumeka, Sumomo. Tengu-Jin. Aurora. 2009. 978-1-934496-54-1.
- 6.Loo, Egan. Distant Star Manga's Sahara Launches Tetsugaku Retora. Anime News Network. 9 March 2011.
- 7.Sherman, Jennifer. Distant Star Manga's Sahara to Launch Itsuya-san Manga. Anime News Network. 24 October 2011.
- 8.Mizu Sahara's Okashiratsuki Manga Gets Live-Action Film. Anime News Network. March 28, 2023.
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q974911: Sumomo YumekaWikimedia Foundation
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