Veteran Manga Artist Murasaki Yamada Has Passed Away

60 year old manga creator, essayist, and poet Murasaki Yamada (birth name Mitsuko Shiratori) passed away in a Kyoto hospital on Tuesday at 4:16 a.m. Yamada’s first published work appeared in Mushi Production’s alternative manga magazine COM in 1969. She continued to create manga titles including Showaru-Neko, Ai no Katachi, and Shinkirari. Yamada was working as a professor in Kyoto Seika University Faculty of Manga when she passed away.

Source: Anime News Network