The facts
Roles
Manga artist
Country
Japan
Active since
1991
Publishers
Hakusensha (Hana to Yume)
Awards
Kodansha Manga Award, shōjo (2001); American Anime Award, manga (2007)
About Natsuki Takaya
Natsuki Takaya is a Japanese manga artist best known for Fruits Basket, serialized in Hakusensha's Hana to Yume from 1998 to 2006 and collected in 23 volumes. By 2018 it had sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling shōjo manga of all time.
Her professional career began in 1991 with the short story Sickly Boy wa Hi ni Yowai in Bessatsu Hana to Yume. She then serialized Phantom Dream and Tsubasa: Those with Wings in Hana to Yume.
Fruits Basket won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo manga in 2001 and the American Anime Award for manga in 2007. It was adapted into anime in 2001 and again in 2019, with Takaya as executive producer. Her later works include Twinkle Stars and Liselotte and Witch's Forest.
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