Sumomo Yumeka

Sumomo Yumeka (夢花 李, Yumeka Sumomo) is a Japanese manga artist, who also writes as Mizu Sahara (佐原 ミズ, Sahara Mizu) She writes in a variety of demographics, publishing yaoi manga as Sumomo Yumeka and seinen manga as Mizu SaharaShe is best known in the west for The Day I Became a Butterfly and Same Cell Organism, both under the Yumeka byline, and the manga adaptation of Voices of a Distant Star under Mizu Sahara. Her series My Girl is being adapted as a live-action television series which began broadcasting in October 2009.

As Sumomo Yumeka

• Kokoro Kikai
• Soshite Hibi Koishiteku
• Soshite Koi ga Hajimaru by Kei Tsukimura (illustrator only)
• Natsukashi Machi no Rozione
• Dousabou Seibutsu (published in English by Digital Manga Publishing as Same Cell Organism)
• Chou ni Naru Hi (published in English by Digital Manga Publishing as The Day I Became a Butterfly)
• Tengusin (published in English by Aurora Publishing as Tengu-Jin)
• Nemunoki no Geshukusou
• Kon no Ki Konoha
• Kimi wa Boku no Taiyou
• Hate ni Aru Kimi
• Kaze Shinshutsu Shita
• The Snake and the Boy (Mitoshōnen)
• Boku wa Sakana

As Mizu Sahara

• Basu Hashiru (includes a series of shorts under the title Nanairo Sekai)
• My Girl
• Hoshi no Koe (written by Makoto Shinkai, illustrator only, published in English by Tokyopop as Voices of a Distant Star)
• Kumo no Mukou, Yakusoku no Basho (written Makoto Shinkai, illustrator only)
• Watashitachi no Shiawase na Jikan (adaption of novel by Ji-Young Gong)
• Tetsugaku Retora
• Itsuya-san