Shungiku Nakamura
Shungiku Nakamura (中村春菊 Nakamura Shungiku?, born December 13,1980) is a Japanese yaoi manga artist. She is most famous for creating Junjo Romantica: Pure Romance. Shungiku Nakamura's distinct style of manga has been identified largely throughout Japanese and English yaoi fanbases. Her works usually include large age gaps between the seme and uke and characters with careers in the publishing industry (as depicted in Junjo Romantica and Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi). She often cowrites with Fujisaki Miyako, who authored the novels of Yoshino Chiaki no baai in Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi.
Works:
Junjo Romantica: Pure Romance (2002 - Ongoing)
"Junjou Mistake" (2008)
Hybrid Child (2003 - 2004)
Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi (2007 - Ongoing)
"√W.P.B." (2004)
"Touzandou Tentsui Ibun" (1998 - 1999)
"Mangetsu Monogatari"
"Tsuki wa Yamiyo ni Kakuru ga Gotoku" (1999)
"Picturesque of a Mask" (art only)
"Umi ni Nemuru Hana"
“I am always, always watching you. And I'll be waiting here for your feelings to catch up on my own.”
“There’s so much I want to talk about with you…so why can’t I get it out, I wonder…?I want to reach you…But the harder I try, the worse it winds up going!This is how it always for me…when it comes to you.”— Takano Masamune from Sekaiichi Hatsukoi by Nakamura Shungiku”
“The person I love right now is the present you.”-Takano Masamune”
“You know...you like me more than you think you do.Takano Masamune”
“I won’t tell him. I won’t tell him that in my whole life, no one have ever made my heart beat like he does. It hurts too much to say this.”— Ritsu Oonodera - (Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi)”
“Even when the thing I want most is right in front of me…I keep thinking about how I’ll just wind up losing it in the end…Kisa Shouta(Sekaiichi Hatsukoi)Vol.6 ch.4”
“Don't get any funny ideas -- When all is said and done, you're still artificial (a thing)... Not human. Don't make the mistake of falling in love with one.”