Mayumi Muroyama

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Mayumi Muroyama (室山まゆみ Muroyama Mayumi?) is the joint penname of Japanese manga artists Mayumi Muroyama (室山真弓? born 1955-08-30) and her younger sister Mariko Muroyama (室山真里子? born 1957-09-27). They made their professional debut in 1976 with Ganbare Aneko in Shoujo Comic.

In 1977, Muroyama began publishing the long-running Asari-chan, which is collected in 76 volumes and which has sold 26,500,000 volumes total as of May 2006, making it the seventh best-selling shōjo manga ever in Japan.[1] Asari-chan received the 1986 Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga.[2] Several of Muroyama's manga have been adapted as anime, including Asari-chan as both a television series and theatrical movie, Dororonpa! as a television series, and Mr. Pen Pen as a television special.[3]

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  1. ^ Historic Shoujo Manga Circulation Numbers (2006-05-24). Retrieved on 2008-01-06.
  2. ^ 小学館漫画賞：歴代受賞者 (Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved on 2007-08-19.
  3. ^ Mayumi Muroyama. Anime News Network. Retrieved on 2008-01-06.

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