Katsura Hoshino (星野 桂) is a Japanese manga artist born in Shiga Prefecture in 1980. After the one-shot Zone in Akamaru Jump (December 2002), she made her serialized debut with Continue in Weekly Shōnen Jump in July 2003.
Her best-known work, D.Gray-man, began in Weekly Shōnen Jump in May 2004 and has been adapted into anime, light novels and video games and published in many countries. Its run has been interrupted by hiatuses for health reasons and later resumed in other Shueisha magazines. In 2013 she served as original character designer for the Sunrise anime Valvrave the Liberator.
