Wataru Yoshizumi (吉住渉; Yoshizumi Wataru) is a Japanese manga artist.Born Mari Nakai(中井 真里 Nakai Mari)on June 18, 1963 in Tokyo,Japan.She graduated from economics of Hitotsubashi University.

Yoshizumi started her career as a manga artist while working as an office lady. Her debut manga was a yomikiri (short story) called Radical Romance that was published in 1984, in the summer issue of Ribon Original.

Yoshizumi's first manga series for Ribon was Handsome na Kanojo, which lasted nine volumes. This was the first work that made her famous in Japan. Her next work, the 8-volume Marmalade Boy, is probably regarded as her most famous manga and has brought her both national and international recognition. After her hit manga, Kimi Shika Iranai (2 volumes), Wataru drew Mint na Bokura, (We Are Mints or Mint Relationship). In 2000, she created a 3-volume short story called "Random Walk.", followed in 2001 by Ultra Maniac, her third manga to be animated (after Handsome na Kanojo and Marmalade Boy which Toei had produced). Her current work is Baby It's You, which was serialized in Ribon Original.

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