Title: トキワ荘パワー! – Tokiwa-sō Power!
Edited by: Hideko Mizuno & Akira Maruyama
Featured authors: Osamu Tezuka, Fujio Akatsuka, Shōtarō Ishinomori, Jirō Tsunoda, Fujiko F. Fujio, Hideko Mizuno, Tokuo Yokota, Asuka Izumi, U. MIA
Publishing house: Shōdensha
Magazine: Shōjo Club, Nakayoshi and others
Publishing year: 2010
Classification: Classic shōjo manga, report
Volumes: 1
In Japan, there are quite a few books and studies [...]
In the Hideko Mizuno’s profile I posted some days ago I already wrote about her debut as a manga artist in 1955, which makes her the third professional female mangaka after Sazae-san’s Machiko Hasegawa and Glass no Shiro (Glass Castle)’s Masako Watanabe.
Here you will hear the same story from her own lips. Let’s Mizuno-sensei [...]
Name: Hideko Mizuno
In Japanese: 水野英子
Date of birth: October 29th, 1939 (70 years old at the time of the interview)
Hometown: Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi
Debut: 1955 (15 years old), with one illustration and one cut for Shōjo Club. Her first story, Akakke Pony (Red-haired pony), was published in 1956, when she was 16 years old.
Main works: Hoshi no tategoto (The [...]
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