Momoko Sakura, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Momoko Sakura

Japanese mangaka

Date of Birth: 08-May-1965

Place of Birth: Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 15-Aug-2018

Profession: writer, mangaka, lyricist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Momoko Sakura (??? ???, Sakura Momoko) (8 May 1965 – 15 August 2018) was the pen name of a Japanese manga artist from Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture.
She was best known as the creator of the long-running manga Chibi Maruko-chan. Sakura, who was born Miki Miura, revealed very little about her privacy, including her real name.Sakura made her debut as an artist in 1984 and the Chibi Maruko-chan was published in Ribon from 1986 to 1996.
The series, which was based on her own childhood, was set in 1974 in suburban Japan.
An anime series based on the Chibi Maruko-chan aired from 1990 to 1992 while the current second series, which debuted in 1995, continues to this day. Sakura also made the more surreal fantasy series Coji-Coji, which ran from 1997 to 1999.
She also worked with Marvelous Interactive on creating the Dreamcast title, Sakura Momoko Gekijo Coji-Coji, and with Nintendo on creating the Game Boy Advance title, Sakura Momoko no Ukiuki Carnival.
In 2005, she designed the characters for the Xbox 360 title Every Party. In 1989, she received the Kodansha Manga Award for shojo for Chibi Maruko-chan.Sakura died from breast cancer on August 15, 2018, at the age of 53.