Katsura Hoshino

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Katsura Hoshino (星野 桂 Hoshino Katsura, born April 21, 1980) is a Japanese mangaka who hails from Shiga prefecture. Although no photo of Hoshino Katsura has been published at this time, based on her past comments (particularly the comments for Miranda Lotto) and drawing style, Japanese fans usually assume Katsura to be a female mangaka, despite the fact that it is unusual for women to publish in shounen serializations. To further complicate this mystery, Viz refers to Katsura as a male when mentioning her. Her blood type is O.

Hoshino is known to have a twin older sister, who visits her often, and a younger brother who "gave her a watch as a present" (apparently she took it from him even though he protested). In order to please her sister, she used to draw manga every day, and she liked drawing herself. But even though Hoshino is assumed to be female, she often uses "boku" (male way of referring to self, also used by tomboys) and "jibun" (a more polite and humble way to refer to oneself, used both by males and females) to refer to herself, making much more confusion about the mystery of her true gender, especially when using "jibun", as it is harder to tell whether she is male or female.

[edit] Works

• The author for the manga series D.Gray-man, which began in 2004 and is currently serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump.
• Other works include the pilot for D.Gray-man, "Book-Man", Zone, as well as Continue.

[edit] External links

• Weekly Jump Official Website

Note: The D.Gray-man page there is still under construction.

• Jump Shop

Sells merchandise of mangas serialized in Weekly Jump, including D. Gray-man.