Suzue Miuchi


Suzue Miuchi is a Japanese manga artist and author of long-running shōjo manga Glass Mask.

Life

She was born in Nishinomiya, Japan and grew up in Osaka. She lived nearby a rental bookstore in her childhood and started drawing manga herself, when she had too many unpaid bills at a rental bookstore and her mother forbid her to continue reading manga. Miuchi made her professional debut as a manga artist in 1967, aged only 16, with the manga Yama no Tsuki to Kodanuki in the shōjo magazine Bessatsu Margaret. Her early debut as a highschool-aged manga artist inspired Yukari Ichijo to start a professional career as a manga artist at the time. She became famous for publishing short stories in the early 1970s, among them also horror manga. Her 1975 short story Shiroi Kagebōshi is considered a classic of shōjo horror manga.
Her biggest success came in 1976, when she began the long-running series Glass Mask about a girl becoming a famous theater actress. The manga has been adapted into a stage play, a live-action TV series and two anime series. She continued publishing Glass Mask until 2012, when she went on hiatus with the series.
She won the Kodansha Manga Award for Yōkihi-den and the Japan Cartoonists Association Award for Glass Mask.

Works

Series

  • Moeru Niji, 1970
  • 13-gatsu no Higeki, 1971
  • Amaranth no Joō, 1972
  • Harukanaru Kaze to Hikari, 1973–1974
  • Kujaku-iro no Kanaria, 1973–1974
  • Shira-yuri no Kishi, 1974–1975
  • Glass Mask, 1976–1997, 2008–2012, serialized in Hana to Yume and Bessatsu Hana to Yume
  • Saint Alice Teikoku, 1976–1978
  • Bara Monogatari, 1979
  • Yōkihi-den, 1981
  • Dynamite Milk Pie, 1982
  • Amaterasu, 1986–2001

    One-shots

  • Yama no Tsuki to Kodanuki to, 1967
  • Shiroi Kagebōshi, 1975, published in Mimi
  • Dynamite Milkpie
  • Futari no Melody
  • Kaerazaru Hyuuga
  • Majou Medea
  • Niji no Ikusa
  • Oujo Alexandra
  • Pollyana's Knight
  • ''Shiroi Kageboshi''