Kodansha Manga Award – Shōjo
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| Suzue Miuchi 美内 すずえ | |
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| Born | February 20, 1951 Nishi-ku, Osaka, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Area(s) | Writer, Penciller, Inker |
Notable works | Glass Mask |
| Awards | 1982 Kodansha Manga Award 1995 Japan Cartoonists Association Award |
Suzue Miuchi (美内 すずえ, Miuchi Suzue, born February 20, 1951) is a Japanese manga artist and author of long-running shōjo manga Glass Mask.
She was born in Nishinomiya, Japan and grew up in Osaka. She lived nearby a rental bookstore (kashi-hon) in her childhood and started drawing manga herself, when she had too many unpaid bills at a rental bookstore and her mother forbid her to continue reading manga. Miuchi made her professional debut as a manga artist in 1967, aged only 16, with the manga Yama no Tsuki to Kodanuki in the shōjo magazine Margaret. Her early debut as a highschool-aged manga artist inspired Yukari Ichijo to start a professional career as a manga artist at the time. She became famous for publishing short stories in the early 1970s, among them also horror manga.[1] Her 1975 short story Shiroi Kagebōshi is considered a classic of shōjo horror manga.[2]
Her biggest success came in 1976, when she began the long-running and ongoing series Glass Mask (Glass no Kamen) about a girl becoming a famous theater actress. The manga has been adapated into a stage play, a live-action TV series and an anime series.[1]
She won the Kodansha Manga Award (1982) for Youkihi-den[3] and the Japan Cartoonists Association Award (1995) for Glass Mask.
