Mikio Yoshimori
Mikio Yoshimori (12 March 1942 – 24 April 2026) was a manga artist from Bunkyō, Tokyo. Yoshimori debuted in 1965 with "Itsutsume no Hōseki" in Bessatsu Margaret and worked mainly in shōjo manga before moving to boys' manga with Renshō Yarō in Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1972. Yoshimori's best-known work, Raipachi-kun, ran in the Sunday edition of the Yomiuri Shimbun from 1977 and was adapted as a TV drama in 1985.