Native name 吉田 玲子 Role Screenwriter Name Reiko Yoshida | Nationality Japan | |
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Occupation Screenwriter, manga artist Books Tokyo Mew Mew, Tokyo Mew Mew Omnibus 2 Movies The Cat Returns, Shiromajo Gakuen, Buddha: The Great Departure, Digimon: The Movie, Blue Exorcist Similar People Mia Ikumi, Naoko Yamada, Hiroyuki Morita, Shigeyasu Yamauchi, Kozo Morishita |
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Reiko Yoshida (吉田 玲子, Yoshida Reiko) is a Japanese screenwriter and manga artist. She has written and supervised numerous screenplays for anime series, live-action dramas and films. Her major works include Kasumin, Kaleido Star, Aria, Maria-sama ga Miteru, D.Gray-man, K-On!, Bakuman and Girls und Panzer. In more recent works, she has supervised the screenplays for Majestic Prince, Non Non Biyori, A Town Where You Live, Tamako Market, Yowamushi Pedal and Castle Town Dandelion. In films, she wrote the screenplay for The Cat Returns, the original films that would make up Digimon: The Movie, and the film adaptations of Osamu Tezuka's Buddha, the last one's second film was given a stamp of approval by the Dalai Lama. She wrote the story for the manga series Tokyo Mew Mew along with illustrator Mia Ikumi. Among her works, she was recognized for Best Screenplay/Original Work for Girls und Panzer at the Tokyo Anime Award Festival in 2014, and she won another Best Screenplay/Original Work award in 2017.