She continued working in advertising until 2001, when she decided to completely focus on her career as a manga artist.
[1][3][4] Her first longer series was Suppli, which she published from 2003 to 2009 in the josei magazine Feel Young and which is set in an advertising company.
From 2014 to 2021, her first longer series for a seinen magazine was published in Monthly Big Comic Spirits, the historical manga A-un.
The series based on the lives of Buddhist monks Kūkai and Saichō is her most critically acclaimed work so far.
[7] Several of her manga, among them Kanojo ga Shinjatta and Shibuya ku Maruyama cho, have been adapted as live-action films or TV series.