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HATSU Akiko    [Edit]
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Associated Names
DaiSenpai

Name (in native language)
波津彬子

Birth Place
Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan

Birth Date
December 16, 1959

Zodiac
Sagittarius

Last Updated
February 23rd 2021, 12:35am

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From the time she was in high school, Hatsu assisted her older sister Kai Yukiko, a successful manga artist and member of the Post Year 24 Group. After graduating high school, she began working for a printing company in Kanazawa City, but she soon quit in order to become a full-time assistant to her sister. She also began to assist other professional artists, most notably Hagio Moto.

Throughout this period, Hatsu was creating doujinshi with her friend Sakata Yasuko (who also went on to become a prominent professional manga artist and a member of the Post Year 24 Group), and sometime around 1980, the two of them coined the term yaoi. In 1980, Yukiko Kai died of stomach cancer at the age of 26. The following year, Hatsu made her professional debut in the magazine ALLAN with the short story "Nami no Banka".

Hatsu served as an adjunct instructor at Kyoto Seika University until retiring in 2005 due to health issues.

Blood Type
A

Gender
Female

Genres
Josei(24)  Historical(14)  Romance(13)  Supernatural(12)  Mystery(10)  Drama(8)  Fantasy(6)  Slice of Life(4)  Horror(3)  Tragedy(3)  Shoujo(2)  Yaoi(2)  Comedy(1) 

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Series Title (Click for series info)
Genre
Drama, Josei, Supernatural
2022
Josei, Romance, Tragedy
1985
Historical, Josei, Romance
1990
Fantasy, Historical, Josei
1989
Drama, Josei, Romance, Slice of Life
2009
Comedy, Historical, Josei, Romance, Supernatural
2014
Fantasy, Historical, Horror, Josei
2009
Fantasy, Historical, Supernatural
2015
Josei
1987
Josei, Romance, Slice of Life
2008
Historical, Josei
1997
Drama, Josei, Slice of Life
2018
Yaoi
1997
Fantasy, Shoujo
2014
Fantasy, Historical, Josei
1993
Historical, Josei, Mystery, Slice of Life, Supernatural
2010
Historical, Josei, Supernatural
2008
Drama, Horror, Josei, Mystery, Romance, Supernatural
1992
Historical, Josei, Mystery, Romance, Supernatural
2010
Historical, Horror, Josei, Mystery
2015
Josei, Romance
1992
Drama, Josei, Romance
1988
1989
Fantasy, Josei, Mystery, Supernatural
2010
Drama, Josei, Mystery, Romance, Tragedy
1992
Yaoi
2000
Historical, Josei, Mystery, Supernatural
2000
Drama, Historical, Josei, Mystery, Supernatural
1991
Mystery, Romance
1999
Josei, Mystery, Romance, Supernatural, Tragedy
1993
Drama, Historical, Romance, Shoujo, Supernatural
1994
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