[1] She made her professional debut in 1977 with the short story Chotto Fushigi na Geshukunin (ちょっと不思議な下宿人, "A Slightly Strange Neighbor"), published in Bessatsu Shōjo Comic magazine.
The series was reprinted many times and received an anime adaptation produced by MAPPA in 2018.
Yoshida herself reacted to this in an interview with a magazine in 1982: "Being a secret shojo manga artist suits me just fine.
Hidden in some little corner of the world, staying out of people's way, I can actually do some pretty outrageous things.
[7] In 2007, she received an Excellence Award for manga at the 11th Japan Media Arts Festival for Umimachi Diary, which was later adapted into a feature film titled Our Little Sister.