Ai Yazawa

Ai Yazawa (矢沢 あい, Yazawa Ai, born March 7, 1967) is a Japanese manga author. While most of Yazawa's manga is published in Japan by Shueisha, publishers of Ribon and Cookie (Nana was serialized in the latter), series like Paradise Kiss have appeared in non-Shueisha magazines such as Zipper, published by Shodensha.