Sumomo Yumeka (夢花 李, Yumeka Sumomo) is a Japanese manga artist, who also writes as Mizu Sahara (佐原 ミズ, Sahara Mizu).
[1] She writes in a variety of demographics, publishing yaoi manga as Sumomo Yumeka and seinen manga as Mizu Sahara.
She is best known in the west for The Day I Became a Butterfly and Same Cell Organism, both under the Yumeka byline, and the manga adaptation of Voices of a Distant Star under Mizu Sahara.
Her series My Girl is being adapted as a live-action television series which began broadcasting in October 2009.
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