Full Name Miki Miura Name Momoko Sakura Role Manga artist | Other names Momoko Sakura Occupation Manga artist Siblings Noriko Miura | |
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Spouse(s) Masataka Miyanaga (divorced)Sashimi Unno Similar People Tarako, Tetsuro Oda, Kei Tomiyama, Eiichi Ohtaki, Kenta Hasegawa | ||
Manga Artist Momoko Sakura Dies From Breast Cancer
Miki Miura (三浦 美紀, Miura Miki, born May 8, 1965), pen name Momoko Sakura (さくら ももこ, Sakura Momoko), is a Japanese manga artist from Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture. She is the creator of the long-running manga Chibi Maruko-chan (published in Ribon from 1986 to 1996), based on her own childhood, and the more surreal fantasy series Coji-Coji, which ran from 1997 to 1999. She also worked with Marvelous Interactive on creating the Dreamcast title, Sakura Momoko Gekijō Coji-Coji, and Nintendo on creating the Game Boy Advance title, Sakura Momoko no Ukiuki Carnival. In 2005, she designed the characters for the Xbox 360 title Every Party.
In 1989, she received the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo for Chibi Maruko-chan.
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