No. 6 Manga Omnibus 1 (Vol. 1-3) - Atsuko Asano

Born in 1954 in Okayama Prefecture, Atsuko Asano is a Japanese writer whose decades-long career has included penning the children's series Telepathy shojo ran and the manga series The Manzai Comics . Her book series, Battery , received the Noma Prize for Juvenile Literature in 1997, the Shogakukan Children's Publication Culture Award in 2005, and a film adaptation in 2007. Since debuting with No. 6 , manga writer and artist Hinoki Kino has gone on to work on series such as Setsuna Graffiti and Bungou Stray Dogs .