Masako Watanabe (わたなべまさこ,Watanabe Masako) (born 16 May 1929, inTokyo,Japan) is aJapanesemanga artist. She began her professional career as an illustrator of books in 1949. She switched to creatingmanga after readingOsamu Tezuka's works, debuting in 1952 withNamida no Sanbika. She quickly became the most popular female manga artist of her time.[1]
She was noted in the 1960s for using pastel colors instead of the bright primary colors common at the time, and for pioneering bothshōjo (written for teenage girls) horror stories withBlue Foxfire andshōjo mystery stories withGlass no Shiro (Glass Castle).[1] In 1971, she received theShogakukan Manga Award forGlass no Shiro andSei Rosalindo.[2] In the 1980s, she turned fromshōjo to sexually explicitredisu-josei (written for adult women) with such series asKinpeibai, which is based on a 19th-century Chinese erotic novel.[1]
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