Hinako Takanaga
Hinako Takanaga is a female Japanese yaoi manga artist from Nagoya. She has also provided illustrations for several yaoi light novels by other authors, including The Guilty by Katsura Izumi. Most of her works have been translated into English and German. Her influences include Suzue Miuchi, Yun Koga and Range Murata.Biography
Hinako Takanaga was born on September 16 in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. Her first manga story,, was published by Hanamaru Comics in 1995. As the story continued it was later retitled Challengers, and it spawned a spinoff series titled The Tyrant Falls in Love. She currently lives in Osaka.
She was a guest at Yaoi-Con in 2007 and 2010, invited by Digital Manga Publishing, the US publishers of her popular series Little Butterfly and The Tyrant Falls in Love.Manga
- Challengers, 1995, 4 volumes
- , 1999, 1 volume
- Little Butterfly, 2001, 3 volumes
- Love Round!!, 2002, 1 volume
- Liberty Liberty!, 2003, 1 volume
- Croquis, 2004, 1 volume
- , 2004, 1 volume; English title A Capable Man
- ''Awkward Silence, 2004, 5 volumes
- The Tyrant Falls in Love, 2004, 8+ volumes
- Turning Point, 2005, 1 volume
- You Will Fall in Love, 2005, 1 volume
- You Will Drown in Love, 2006, 3 volumes
- The Devil's Secret, 2007, 1 volume
- , 2011
Illustrations
- The Guilty Series, by Katsura Izumi
- Shirasagi Series, by Haruhi Sakiya
- Shinkan Series, by Tamaki Yoshida
- , by Runoa Mafune, 2008
