Makoto Isshiki

is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known for her series Forest of Piano, which has been adapted as an anime film and received the Grand Prize for manga at the 2008 Japan Media Arts Festival. She won the 1994 Kodansha Manga Award for general manga for Hanada Shōnen-shi, which has also been adapted as both an anime television series and a live-action film. From November 2021 to August 2022, Isshiki worked with Takashi Nagasaki on Child from the Dark, based on Nagasaki's novel Yomi Nemuru Mori -Daigo Shinji no Hakuran Suiri File-. Isshiki was credited as during the manga's serialization in Big Comic, but is credited by her real name in its .

Selected works Denaoshitoide! - Big Comic Spirits, 1988–95, 6 volumes Hanada Shōnen-shi ("The Chronicles of Young Hanada") - Mr. Magazine, 1993–95, 4 + 1 volumes Hassuru - Big Comic Spirits, 1996–97, 6 volumes Gyojin-Sou kara Ai wo Komete ("With Love from Gyojin Inn") - Shōnen Jump Deluxe, 1998, 1 volume Forest of Piano ("Piano Forest") - Young Magazine Uppers, Weekly Morning, 1998–2015, 26 volumes - Written by Takashi Nagasaki, Big Comic, 2021–2022, 2 volumes 13-nichi ni wa Hana wo Kazatte - Big Comic Original Zokan, 2023–present