biography

Katsura Hoshino (星野 桂, Hoshino Katsura, April 21, 1980) is a Japanese mangaka from Shiga Prefecture. She has blood type O and is 170 cm tall. She has also worked in animation and designed the characters for the 2013 TV anime Valvrave the Liberator. Her best-known work to date is D.Gray-man, which began serialization in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump in May 2004 and has been adapted into anime and light novels.