Hideko Mizuno

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 1955 with ''Akakke Kōma Pony'', a Western story with a tomboy heroine. She became a prominent shōjo artist in the 1960s and 1970s, 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 anime television series, licensed in English as ''Honey Honey'' on CBN Cable Network. Provided by Wikipedia