2 Quotes & Sayings By Shouko Akira
Shouko Akira is a Japanese adult manga artist. She was named one of the top 100 most popular artists in Japan by the Asahi Shimbun newspaper in 2006. Akira was born in Kanagawa Prefecture. Her first work was "Moete mo Yume" ("To be or not to be") for Enix's free monthly magazine "Manga-Ran" in 2002. Her work was then turned into an adult game called "Akumetsu" by Team Shanghai Alice, which was released on December 21, 2005 for the PlayStation 2. In 2007, she drew a short story called "Fairy Puran" for the third volume of the manga anthology "Kodansha Gakuen Alice"
In 2008, she drew a short story titled "No More..." for the eighth volume of "Kodansha Gakuen Alice" as well as its novelization. In 2011, Akira worked on a series of four one-shot stories titled "Missions", which were published as a book by Kodansha on February 28, 2011. In 2012, Akira drew a series of four one-shots titled "Missions: Episode 0", which were published as a book by Kodansha on May 23, 2012. In 2015, she drew two oneshots titled "Jyousai no Kiseki" and "Ama no Ki ni Naritai", both of which were published as a book by Kodansha on November 25, 2015. She won Best General Manga at the 14th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Awards in 2013 and received an Excellence Prize from Kodansha in 2014.