Akiko Higashimura

Akiko Higashimura (Japanese: 東村 アキコ, Hepburn: Higashimura Akiko^?, born October 15, 1975) is a Japanese manga artist from Miyazaki, Japan. She debuted in the now defunct Japanese magazine Bouquet Deluxe in 1999 with Fruits Kōmori (フルーツコウモリ) and later became more notable for her manga Kisekae Yuka-chan which debuted in Cookie magazine. In 2008, she drew the one-shot Chuō-Sen Cinema Paradise for the magazine Jump SQ. She was nominated for the Manga Taishō in 2008 for Himawari: Kenichi Legend, in 2009 for Mama wa Tenparist, in 2010 for Princess Jellyfish, in 2011 for Omo ni Naitemasu, and in 2016 and 2017 for Tokyo Tarareba Musume. In 2015, she won the Manga Taishō for Kakukaku Shikajika. Her younger brother Takuma Morishige is the author of the manga My Neighbor Seki.