Mizuki Kawashita

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Mizuki Kawashita (河下水希 Kawashita Mizuki, b. August 30 in Shizuoka, Japan) is a mangaka. Her first public work was a doujinshi called Innocent in 1993, and her popular current works are Lilim Kiss (2 volumes) and Ichigo 100% (19 volumes released in Japan). Before, She released shōjo manga with a pen name of "Mikan Momokuri" (桃栗みかん Momokuri Mikan) in Japan.

Her trademark is that her female characters are not hyperbolically thin, but tend to be closer to real world proportions. Mostly they still follow the shounen traits of female leads, meaning they are usually cute, buxom, sexy, or curvy, in order to appeal to the young male readers. Occasionally they will be drawn in revealing outfits or in various states of undress. Another, more minor trait of hers is that the majority of her male roles have their names ending in "a" (Manaka, Sotomura, Kojima, Takaya, Amamiya, etc.). The three exceptions are "Chappy" from Lilim Kiss and Higure and Amachi from Ichigo 100%, whose full names are not revealed.

Due to having heavily shounen-oriented manga published in magazines like Shonen Jump, a common misconception is to assume that the mangaka of her works is a man.