| Kanoko Sakurakoji 桜小路かのこ |
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| Born | Tokyo, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Area(s) | Manga artist |
| Notable works | Backstage Prince Black Bird |
| Awards | 2009 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga - Black Bird |
Kanoko Sakurakoji (桜小路 かのこ Sakurakōji Kanoko, born in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist. She writes primarily for Shogakukan in the shōjo manga magazine Betsucomi. She is best known as the author of Backstage Prince and Black Bird. Black Bird received the 2009 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga.[1] Both Backstage Prince and Black Bird are licensed in English in North America by Viz Media.
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The world is full of mysterious "things," but life keeps on going peacefully because no one can
see them--except Misao. Harada Misao has the special power to see these "things," but she doesn't
tell anybody and tries to continue leading a happy high school life. Though she's jealous of her
friends who have boyfriends, she's just like a normal teenage girl as she keeps having dreams
about a boy she met when she was younger who has the same power as she does. Her mundane life
suddenly changes when deamons try to eat her, and her old friend Kyo comes back to protect her
from them. Then, she finds out that she is personally being sought out as deamon food and that Kyo
is a deamon, too. Will she still marry him like they promised when they were children, based on
her faith in him that he has no bad intentions towards her? Will she even be safe at school now
that Kyo has become her new homeroom teacher? Her exciting teenage life is just about to begin.
Backstage Prince is the story of Akari, your basic, average girl, who meets by a twist of fate;
the masochistic, childish, anti-social, and beautiful bishounen, Ryusei, also know as his kabuki
stage name; Shonosuke Ichimura.