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Kagami Yoshimizu | |
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| Born | 美水 かがみ October 7, 1977 Satte, Saitama, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Notable work | Lucky Star |
Kagami Yoshimizu (美水 かがみ, Yoshimizu Kagami, born 1977) is a Japanese manga artist from Satte, Saitama, Japan. He is best known as the creator of Lucky Star, which began serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's Comptiq magazine in December 2003. He is also credited for creating Comptiq's mascot character Comp-chan (コンプちゃん, Konpu-chan).
Yoshimizu also works under the pen name Tsukasa Suina (水奈 つかさ, Suina Tsukasa).
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".[1] 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.[2] On September 2, 2022, it was announced that Lucky Star would make a return. It began again on November 10, 2022. As of 2023, it runs in Comptiq.
