Hikaru Nakamura (artist)

[1] She debuted in 2001 with the short story Kairi no Sue (海里の陶), published in Monthly Gangan Wing.

[1] She is best known as the creator of the manga series Arakawa Under the Bridge and Saint Young Men, the latter of which won a Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2009.

[2] A Nikkei Entertainment magazine article published in August 2011 listed her ninth overall among the top 50 manga creators by sales since 2010, with 5.54 million copies sold.

[3] Her artwork has also been featured in two manga exhibitions at the British Museum in London, England.

[4] Nakamura gave birth to her first child, a daughter, in November 2011.