Yumi Tamura


Yumi Tamura is a Japanese manga artist.
Her debut short story, Ore-tachi no Zettai Jikan, was published in 1983 in Bessatsu Shōjo Comic and received the 1983 Shogakukan Grand Prize for new artists. Since then, she has completed more than 50 compiled volumes of short stories and continuing series. Popular works such as Tomoe ga Yuku! exemplify her work, but she made her reputation with the long-running shōjo action/adventure series Basara, for which she won the 1993 Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōjo category. Her series 7 Seeds, for which she won a second Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōjo category in 2007, ran in the anthology magazine Flowers in Japan. Chicago was her first series to be published in North America. In 2021, she won a third Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga for her latest series Don't Call It Mystery.
In addition to manga, she has published four novels with illustrations by herself, as well as doing character designs for Square's Super Famicom RPG Live A Live Distant Future chapter, "The Mechanical Heart."

Works

Ore-tachi no Zettai Jikan Shinwa ni Natta Gogo 17 Nichime no Chopin Ano Natsu ga Owaru Tomoe ga Yuku! Bishop no Wa Basara Roppongi Shinjuu Boku ga Tenshi wo Unda Riyuu Madonna ni Tsugu Boku ga Boku wo Wasureta Riyuu X-Day Boku ga Santa ni Atta Riyuu Boku ga Gomi wo Suteta Riyuu Hearts Toorima 1991 Wild Com. Hare Tokidoki Yami Odoru Kyoushitsu Ouji-kun Box Kei! Chicago Boku ga Juuban Shoubusuru Wake 7 Seeds Wangan Jungle Chotto Eiyuushite Mitai Bokura no Mura ni wa Mizuumi ga atta Tamura Yumi the Best Selection Neko Mix Genkitan Toraji