Waki Yamato

is a Japanese manga artist. She debuted in 1966 with the short story ''Dorobō Tenshi''.

Since her debut, Yamato steadily created and published a variety of works in the genre of manga. Among her early time works, ''Mon Cherie CoCo'', 1971, was adapted into an anime television series, and her work, ''Haikara-san ga Tōru'', 1975 to 1977, was very successful, winning the 1st Kodansha Manga Award for manga in 1977. It was also made into a musical for the Takarazuka Revue, an anime series (which reached an international audience through TV broadcasts in Italy and France), and a live-action film. Through these early works, she established her position as one of the most popular manga artists. Provided by Wikipedia