Yuki Kodama

Kodama was born on September 26 in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.^[1] She made her debut as a manga artist in 2000, with her series Zakuro (柘榴) published in Cutie Comic, a manga magazine published by Takarajimasha.^[2] Kodama would go on to publish several short-form works in Cutie Comic and Vanilla, a manga magazine published by Kodansha, in the early- to mid-2000s.^[3]

Kodama is best known for her manga series Kids on the Slope, which was serialized in the manga magazine Monthly Flowers from 2007 to 2012.^[4] The series, which Kodama based on her own experience growing up in Sasebo, was the top-ranked manga for women in the 2009 edition of Takarajimasha's annual Kono Manga ga Sugoi! rankings^[5] and won the 57th Shogakukan Manga Award in 2012 for general manga.^[6] In 2012, Kids on the Slope was adapted into a television anime series by director Shinichirō Watanabe.^[4]

Following Kids on the Slope, Kodama's wrote the manga series Tsukikage Baby, a drama focused on events in a traditional Japanese town from the perspectives of several different families. The series, which was published from 2013 to 2017 in Monthly Flowers;^[7][8] was one of the top ranked manga for women in the 2014 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! rankings.^[9] Her next series Chiisako no Niwa, also published in Monthly Flowers, ran from 2017 to 2018,^[10][11] and placed eighth in the 2019 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! rankings.^[12] Her most recent work, Ao no Hana, Utsuwa no Mori, has been published in Monthly Flowers since 2018.^[13]

Ongoing series

• Hagoromo Mishin (published in Monthly Flowers, 2007)^[14]
• Kids on the Slope (published in Monthly Flowers, 2007 – 2012)^[4]
• Tsukikage Baby (published in Monthly Flowers, 2013 – 2017)^[7][8]
• Chiisako no Niwa (published in Monthly Flowers, 2017 – 2018)^[10][11]
• Ao no Hana, Utsuwa no Mori (published in Monthly Flowers, 2018 – 2022)^[13]
• Wolf's Daughter: A Werewolf's Tale (published in Monthly Flowers, 2022 – present)

One-Shots

• Zakuro (published in Cutie Comic, 2000)^[2]
• Hōsekibako no Ningyo (published in Yawaraka Spirits, 2013)^[15]
• Underground (published in Zōkan Flowers, 2014)^[16]