AMANO Akira

Japanese Name: 天野明

Place of Birth: Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Gender: Female

Information for Authors: Born in 1973. In 1998, she received Excellent New Face Award for Seinen Category at the 38th Chiba Tetsuya Award. Reborn! first appeared in Weekly Shonen Jump as a stand-alone short story in late 2003. The massive success of this one-shot story led Weekly Shonen Jump to begin serializing Reborn! in mid-2004. Amano is the original character designer for the Psycho-Pass franchise. SAKAKI Kenji, KAITO, AIMOTO Shou, SAIZAKI Ren & MIZUKI Shion were her assistants on Reborn! She and USUTA Kyousuke are friends.