東村アキコ

• Born 1975-10-15

Akiko Higashimura (東村アキコ) is a Japanese manga artist. She debuted as a professional manga artist in the now-defunct manga magazine Bouquet Deluxe in 1999 with the short story "Fruits Kōmori" (フルーツコウモリ). Her first serialized work was Kisekae Yuka-chan (2001), published in the shōjo magazine Cookie. She is known for series like Princess Jellyfish (海月姫 / Kuragehime), Tokyo Tarareba Girls (東京タラレバ娘 / Tōkyō Tarareba Musume), Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artist's Journey (かくかくしかじか / Kakukaku Shikajika), Yukibana no Tora (雪花の虎), Bishoku Tantei Akechi Goro (美食探偵 明智五郎), Himawari - Kenichi Legend (ひまわりっ 〜健一レジェンド〜), Mama wa Tenparist (ママはテンパリスト) and Omo ni Naitemasu (主に泣いてます). Higashimura is renowned for her extraordinary productivity. Since the mid-2000s, she has consistently maintained multiple serializations at once, producing roughly 100 pages of manga every month for over a decade. Her productivity is supported by an unusually large team of assistants. She is the elder sister of manga artist Takuma Morishige (森繁拓真), the author of the manga My Neighbor Seki.