Kiyohiko Azuma

Kiyohiko Azuma (あずまきよひこ, Azuma Kiyohiko^?, born May 27, 1968 in Takasago, Hyōgo Prefecture) is a Japanese manga artist. From 1999 to 2002, he released the four-panel manga series Azumanga Daioh, about a group of high school girls, which was adapted into an anime series. In 2003, he started a slice-of-life manga series Yotsuba&!, about the adventures of a five-year-old girl; it is serialized in the monthly magazine Dengeki Daioh. Prior to these series, he worked on a hentai manga called Inma no Ranbu under the pseudonym Jōji Jonokuchi (序ノ口譲二^?).