Suzue Miuchi

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.

• Moeru Niji (燃える虹), 1970
• 13-gatsu no Higeki (13月の悲劇), 1971
• Amaranth no Joō (アマランスの女王), 1972
• Harukanaru Kaze to Hikari (はるかなる風と光), 1973–1974
• Kujaku-iro no Kanaria (孔雀色のカナリア), 1973–1974
• Shira-yuri no Kishi (白ゆりの騎士), 1974–1975
• Glass Mask (ガラスの仮面, Garasu no Kamen), since 1976, serialized in Hana to Yume and Bessatsu Hana to Yume
• Saint Alice Teikoku (聖アリス帝国, Sei-Arisu Teikoku), 1976–1978
• Bara Monogatari (バラ物語), 1979
• Yōkihi-den (妖鬼妃伝), 1981
• Dynamite Milk Pie (ダイナマイト・みるく・パイ, Dainamaito Miruku Pai), 1982
• Amaterasu (アマテラス), 1986–1995

• Yama no Tsuki to Kodanuki to (山の月とこだぬきと), 1967
• Shiroi Kagebōshi (白い影法師), 1975, published in Mimi
• Dynamite Milkpie
• Futari no Melody
• Kaerazaru Hyuuga
• Majou Medea
• Niji no Ikusa
• Oujo Alexandra
• Pollyana's Knight
• Shiroi Kageboshi

• Miuchi's homepage (in Japanese)
• Suzue Miuchi at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Suzue Miuchi at IMDb