Aya Kanno

Aya Kanno is a Japanese shojo manga artist born in Tokyo. A former assistant to manga artist Masashi Asaki, she debuted in Hakusensha's Hana to Yume in 2001 with Soul Rescue. She is best known for Otomen, a romantic comedy that ran from 2006 and received a live-action TV drama in 2009, and Requiem of the Rose King, a dark historical fantasy based on Shakespeare's Richard III that ran from 2013 to 2022 and was adapted into an anime. Her later work includes Fruit of the Underworld.