Takako Shimura


Takako Shimura is a Japanese manga artist. She is primarily known for her manga works which feature LGBT topics.

Career

Her best known and selling series are Aoi Hana and Wandering Son. Aoi Hana was adapted as an anime television series broadcast in 2009. Wandering Son has been licensed in English by Fantagraphics Books and an anime adaptation aired in 2011. In 2014, she collaborated with the original character concepts for the anime Aldnoah.Zero. In 2016, she provided the character designs for the anime Battery.
Aside from her publications as a professional manga artist, she is also active in amateur manga. In 2009, she formed a circle named "Harapeko Sentai Hashi Ranger" together with fellow manga artists Hisae Iwaoka, Fumiko Tanagawa, Aoki Toshinao, and Ishide Den.

Works

Shikii no Jūnin Seikatsu Ijishō Boku wa, Onna no Ko