Kazuya Minekura, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Kazuya Minekura

Japanese manga artist

Date of Birth: 23-Mar-1975

Place of Birth: Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Profession: mangaka

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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Kazuya Minekura (?????, Minekura Kazuya, born March 23, 1975) is a Japanese manga artist widely known for the Saiyuki series.
She was born in Kanagawa-ken, and still resides there.
Her blood type is A.
Her other manga series include Wild Adapter, Shiritsu Araiso Koto Gakko Seitokai Shikkobu (Araiso Private School Student Council Executive Committee), and Stigma.
Stigma is notable for being a full-color work, unusual as manga is generally drawn in black and white.
Minekura portrays herself as a naked chibi character with brown hair, in the Artist's Talk section of her manga's, and has never used a photo of herself.
She had an illness that affected her writing from 2004–2007, which caused her to have a hysterectomy.
On 28 September 2010, she went on Hiatus to undergo surgery for ameloblastoma on the right half of her upper jawbone.
On 31 December 2010, she reported her surgery was successful after removing the tumor on her right upper jawbone and is currently resting and being fitted with artificial prosthetics to reconstruct the area where her bones were removed.
She resumed her manga Wild Adapter in 2015.