Miki Yoshikawa

is a Japanese manga artist best known for her manga series Flunk Punk Rumble, Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches and A Couple of Cuckoos and their accompanying anime series. Her debut work was a one-shot called Glory Days in Kodansha's Magazine Special. She assisted Hiro Mashima on Rave Master and Fairy Tail. In 2005, she released the comedy one-shot Flunk Punk Rumble in Shonen Magazine Wonder, which was later made into a short series and eventually publicized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 2006 to 2011, with a total of 211 chapters. In 2012, she released Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches, which has to date sold over 3 million copies, and was adapted into a live-action drama series and a TV anime series.

Style and influence

At Anime Expo 2015, Yoshikawa said that she was inspired by Dragon Ball, and would try to copy some of Akira Toriyama's panels and manuscripts. She credits Hiro Mashima for "teaching her everything I know" while she was assisting him on Fairy Tail. When it was noted that the main characters for both of her works were delinquents, Yoshikawa replied that those types of characters came easily for her, as she grew up in the lower end of Tokyo. The characters and their names are not based on her friends so that they can act crazy. At the time of Anime Expo, she said she had five assistants. She does her drawing by hand in black-and-white, and uses the computer for the filling in colors. She spends about half of her time on story, and the other half on actual drawing.

Works Title Japanese title/Romaji Date Volumes Magazine Flunk Punk Rumble ヤンキー君とメガネちゃん Yankī-kun to Megane-chan October 18, 2006 – May 18, 2011 23 Weekly Shōnen Magazine Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches 山田くんと7人の魔女 Yamada-kun to Nananin no Majo February 22, 2012 – February 22, 2017 28 A Couple of Cuckoos カッコウの許嫁 Kakkou no Īnazuke January 29, 2020 – present 25 Hiragi-san's House of Vampires 柊さんちの吸血事情 Hiiragi-san no Kyūketsu Jijō October 8, 2021 – present 6 Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine