Hinako Ashihara

Hinako Ashihara (Japanese芦 原 妃 名子, Ashihara Hinako, born January 25, 19xx in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist. Your comics are aimed primarily at young girls, so are the shōjo genre - assign.

In 1994 she brought the short story Sono hanashi okotowari shimasu (その 話 おことわり し ます) in the manga magazine Betsucomi their first release out. For this magazine was followed by other short stories, which was summarized between 1995 and 1996 in the three-volume collection of Girls Lesson, as well as some series, including the ballet manga Tenshi no Kisu (天使 の キス, 1997-1998).

My biggest success you achieved with the series Sunadokei - The Hourglass (砂 时 计, Sunadokei ) about a girl from Tokyo, the mother moved with her twelve years because of the divorce of their parents in the country. The approximately 1,800 -page manga was published from 2003 to 2006 as a continuation of history in Betsucomi and then summarized in ten anthologies that sold over 5.7 million copies. The comic was made into a television series and brought the illustrator 2005 Shogakukan Manga Award a.

Ashiharas work has been translated into English, German, Chinese, Korean, Italian, Spanish and French.