Mayumi Muroyama

Mayumi Muroyama (室山 まゆみ, Muroyama Mayumi) is the joint pen name of Japanese manga artists Mayumi Muroyama (室山 真弓; born August 30, 1955) and her younger sister Mariko Muroyama (室山 真里子; born September 27, 1957). They made their professional debut in 1976 with Ganbare Aneko in Shōjo Comic.

In 1977, Muroyama published Asari-chan, which was collected in 100 volumes and which had sold 26,500,000 volumes total as of May 2006, making it the seventh best-selling shōjo manga ever in Japan.[1] Asari-chan received the 1986 Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga.[2] Several of Muroyama's manga have been adapted as anime, including Asari-chan as both a television series and theatrical movie, Dororonpa! as a television series, and Mr. Pen Pen as a television special.

References

  1. ^ "Historic Shoujo Manga Circulation Numbers". ComiPress. 2006-05-24. Archived from the original on 2012-02-06. Retrieved 2008-01-06.
  2. ^ 小学館漫画賞：歴代受賞者 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on July 10, 2008. Retrieved 2007-08-19.


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