Takako Shimura (志村貴子, Shimura Takako, born October 23, 1973) is a Japanese
manga artist. She is primarily known for her
manga works which feature
LGBT (especially
lesbian and
transgender) topics.
Career
Her best known and selling series are Aoi Hana and Wandering Son. Aoi Hana was adapted as an
anime television series broadcast in 2009. Wandering Son has been licensed in English by
Fantagraphics Books and an anime adaptation[1] aired in 2011. In 2014, she collaborated with the original character concepts for the anime Aldnoah.Zero. In 2016, she provided the character designs for the anime Battery.
Aside from her publications as a professional manga artist, she is also active in amateur manga. In 2009, she formed a doujinshi circle named "Harapeko Sentai Hashi Ranger" together with fellow manga artists
Hisae Iwaoka, Fumiko Tanagawa, Aoki Toshinao and Ishide Den.[2]