Ai Yazawa

Ai Yazawa is a charismatic girls' comic author in Japan. She has written many stories that are read among many Japanese girls, both children and adults. The girls in her stories are always very fashionable and stylish that many readers adore her fashion sense. Her stories are also very attaching, and many readers understand and feel the same way the characters in the story. She has published many illustration collections also.

The four most famous comics written by this author are: "Tennshi-nannkajanai," "Gokinnjo-Monogatari," "Paradise Kiss," and "NANA." "NANA" is the most recent comic books and it still continues. So far(Nov.2002), there are from 1 to 7, and sold a total of 750 million copies.