Hideko Mizuno

Hideko Mizuno (水野英子) is one of the first successful female Japanese shōjo manga artists. She was an assistant of Osamu Tezuka staying in Tokiwa-sō. She made her professional debut in 1956 with Akakke Pony. She became a prominent shōjo artist in the 1960s and 1970's, starting with White Troika, which serialized in Margaret in 1963.

Mizuno is best known for Fire! (1969-1971), one of the first shōjo manga with a boy protagonist, for which she won the 1970 Shogakukan Manga Award. Her Honey Honey no Suteki na Bouken (1966) was adapted as an internationally popular anime television series, licensed in English as Honey Honey.