Reiko Okano


Reiko Okano is a Japanese manga artist.
Okano attended a graphic design school after graduating from high school and has never worked as a manga assistant. Her first serialized work was Esther, Please in 1982.
In 1989, she won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo for Fancy Dance. Onmyōji, an original work by Baku Yumemakura, was drawn by Reiko Okano and received the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2001. She went on to produce a sequel version, Onmyōji: Tamatebako, in the comic magazine Melody.
She is married to director Makoto Tezuka.

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