| Hideko Mizuno 水野英子 | |
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| Born | October 29, 1939 Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Area(s) | Manga artist |
Notable works | Fire! Honey Honey no Suteki na Bouken |
| Awards | 15th Shogakukan Manga Award - Fire! |
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Hideko Mizuno (水野英子, Mizuno Hideko, born 29 October 1939 in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan) is one of the first successful female Japanese shōjo manga artists.[1] She was an assistant of Osamu Tezuka staying in Tokiwa-sō. She made her professional debut in 1955 with Akakke Kōma Pony, a Western story with a tomboy heroine. She became a prominent shōjo artist in the 1960s and 1970s, starting with White Troika, which serialized in Margaret in 1963.
Mizuno is best known for Fire! (1969–1971), one of the first shōjo manga with a boy protagonist, for which she won the 1970 Shogakukan Manga Award. Her Honey Honey no Suteki na Bouken (1966) was adapted as an anime television series, licensed in English as Honey Honey on CBN Cable Network.
- ^ Toku, Masami (2004). "The Power of Girls' Comics: The Value and Contribution to Visual Culture and Society". Archived from the original on 3 March 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2009.
Girl's manga were first depicted by female mangaka in the 1950s. Watanabe, Maki, and Mizuno are the most successful girl's mangaka who visualized girls' dreams and desires in their graphic novels.