Ai Yazawa is a Japanese manga artist, born in 1967 in Hyōgo Prefecture. She debuted in 1985 in the shōjo magazine Ribon, where she published Marine Blue, I'm No Angel, Neighborhood Story and Last Quarter. Paradise Kiss (1999), serialized in the fashion magazine Zipper, was followed by Nana (2000), the story of two young women who share a name and an apartment in Tokyo, which won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2003. Nana has been on hiatus since 2009, when illness forced her to stop; she has since worked mainly on illustration.
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Ai Yazawa is a Japanese manga artist, born in 1967 in Hyōgo Prefecture. She debuted in 1985 in the shōjo magazine Ribon, where she published Marine Blue, I'm No Angel, Neighborhood Story and Last Quarter. Paradise Kiss (1999), serialized in the fashion magazine Zipper, was followed by Nana (2000), the story of two young women who share a name and an apartment in Tokyo, which won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2003. Nana has been on hiatus since 2009, when illness forced her to stop; she has since worked mainly on illustration.