Chie Shinohara

Chie Shinohara (篠原千絵) is an award winning Japanese manga artist best-known for Red River, known in Japan as Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori: Anatolia Story. She has twice received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo, in 1987 for Yami no Purple Eye and in 2001 for Red River.

Aside from her comics work, she has also written several prose novels. She has published the six volume Big Draw Daughter Hatsu light novel series, as well as three gaiden (or side-story) novels related to her Red River series. All of these were illustrated by Shinohara herself.

Works

 * Akatsuki no Lion
 * Ao no Fūin (Blue Seal) - 1992–94
 * Houmonsha wa Mayonaka ni (Midnight Visitor) - 1984
 * Kioku no Ashiato
 * Kootta Natsu no Hi (Frozen Summer Day)
 * Mizu ni Sumu Hana (Romance of Darkness) - 2004
 * Mokugekisha ni Sayounara (Farewell to the Eyewitness) - 1985
 * Nanika ga yami de mite iru (Something Watching in the Dark) - 1986
 * Ryouko no Shinreijikenbo (A Record of Ryoko's Psychic Events) - 1988–91
 * Sanninme ga Kieta (A Third Person Disappeared) - 1992
 * Soshite Gokai no Suzu ga naru (Then Five Bells Rang)
 * Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori: Anatolia Story (Red River) - 1995–2002
 * Touboukyuukou (Runaway Express)
 * Umi no Yami, Tsuki no Kage (Moon Shadow on a Dark Sea) - 1986–91
 * Yami no Purple Eye (Purple Eye of Darkness) - 1984–87