Her works later moved to Bessatsu Friend magazine, also published by Kodansha.
Her career was put on hiatus in October 2005, after she was discovered to have plagiarized other artists, including tracing others' work.
[citation needed] On March 24, 2009, her work Chihayafuru was chosen for the Manga Taishō.
On June 5, 2020, she expressed support for Black Lives Matter movement.
[3] She supported Kenji Utsunomiya for the 2020 Tokyo gubernatorial election.