Manga creator and illustrator Kazue Kato was born in Tokyo on July 20. In 2000, she won the prestigious Tezuka Award for her work
Boku to Usagi (The Rabbit and Me) published in
Akamaru Jump. From 2005 to 2006 her series
Robo to Usakichi, a sci-fi adventure featuring a rabbit (again!) was published in the monthly magazine
Shonen Sirius (Kodansha).
Her latest series,
Blue Exorcist, began in
Jump Square in April of 2009.