Sad News: Yoshiko Tsuchida, the Manga Creator of Tsuruhime-ja!, Has Passed Away

The official Twitter account for Yoshiko Tsuchida‘s Tsuruhime-ja! manga announced on Saturday that Tsuchida passed away on Friday. She was 75.

Tsuchida was born in Tokyo in 1948. She worked as an assistant to Fujio Akatsuka (Himitsu no Akko-chan, Osomatsu-kun), and made her debut as a manga creator in 1968.

Tsuchida’s Tsuruhime-ja! shōjo manga ran from 1973 to 1979 in Shueisha‘s Weekly Margaret magazine. The manga inspired a 49-episode television anime adaptation that premiered in 1990.

Tsuchida also wrote other manga such as Nanohana Tsubomi, Watashi wa Sijimi!, Yoshiko de~su! Waratte Itadakimasu!!, Hideko-chan, Kimidori Midoro Aomidoro, Neba Neba Nebako, Mattanashi!! Yoshiko wa Old Lady, and more.

Sources: Tsuruhime-ja! manga‘s Twitter account, Oricon, Comic Natalie