Ai Yazawa

Ai Yazawa is a popular girls' comic author in Japan. She has written many stories that are read among Japanese girls and women. The girls in her stories are always very fashionable and stylish, and many readers adore her fashion sense. Her stories are also very lovable, and many readers identify with the characters in the story. She has also published many illustration collections.

The four most famous comics created by this author are: "Tennshi-nannkajanai," "Gokinnjo-Monogatari," "Paradise Kiss," and "NANA." "NANA" is the most recent and ongoing series. So far (Nov. 2002), there are seven books in the series, which have sold a total of 750 million copies.