Keiko Takemiya
Japanese manga artist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Keiko Takemiya is a Japanese manga artist and the former president of Kyoto Seika University. Career Keiko Takemiya is included in the Year 24 Group, a term coined by academics and critics to refer to a group of female authors in the early 1970s who helped transform manga from being created primarily by male authors to being created by female authors. As part of this group, Takemiya pioneered a genre of manga about love between young men called . In 1970, she published a historical short story titled Sunroom Nite in Bessatsu Shōjo Comic, which is possibly the first manga ever published. Illustrating a tragic romance between a Romani boy and his wealthy classmate, it contains the earliest known male–male kiss in manga.
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