Original character design
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Mangaka
Fumiyo Kouno
こうの史代
Biography
Birth place: Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Her manga Town of Everything Calm, country of the Cherry Blossoms won Grand Prize at the 8th Japan Media Arts Festival (2004), and the New Life Award at the 9th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prizes (2005).