Hiromi Morishita
Hiromi Morishita (credited as 森下ひろみ at the time, later 森下裕美) was born in 1962 in Nara Prefecture. After an honorable mention in Jump's Fresh Jump Award in 1982, she serialized "Jun" in Weekly Shōnen Jump that year and then turned mainly to four-panel comics; her best-known work, Shōnen Ashibe, was adapted into a TV anime. Her Osaka Hamlet won an Excellence Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2006 and the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize's Short Story Award in 2007.