Fuyumi Soryo

Fuyumi Soryo (惣領 冬実) is a Japanese manga artist, and the creator of Mars. Besides Mars, she is also known for Boyfriend, for which she won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga in 1987, and Eternal Sabbath. Her most recent project is Cesare, a manga about Cesare Borgia and the Borgia family.

Biography
Soryo was born in Beppu, a city in the Ōita Prefecture on January 6th, 1959. She is from a Kanze Noh family (Noh being a form of Japanese theater, and Kanze being the most prestigious school for Noh). Soryo's first manga Hidamari no Hōmon-Sha was published in Bessatsu in April 1982. She then created Boyfriend, which was published in Shūkan Shōjo Komikku from 1985 to 1988. Mars was first published in Bessatsu Friend from February 1996 to December 2000. A prequel, Mars: Horse With No Name, was published in Bessatsu Friend in December 1999. In 2001, Soryo moved over to Morning, another publication from publisher Kodansha, to work on more mature stories, there she has created Eternal Sabbath, which ran from 2001 to 2005. She began Cesare, a manga about Cesare Borgia and the Borgia family in 2005, which, barring a short break from 2016 to 2019, was published until November 2021. Soryo will begin working on her next project in the near future.

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