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Also known as Mokona Apapa

is the pen name of the lead artist, colorist, and composition designer of the all-female manga-artist team Clamp. She was formerly known as ; she dropped her last name because she claimed it sounded too "immature". Clamp has had a huge impact on the "manga explosion" according to an account in The New York Times in 2006. Their artwork has been characterized as "wispy", "fluid", and "dramatic" which has resonated with both male and female demographic readers of manga. The Tsubasa manga sold over a million copies in the United States, and television programs and DVD spinoffs based on the concept

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Works
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  • Clamp Mokonas Okimono Kimono
  • Hiten Muma, Illustration side, Volume 1

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Listeners
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Total plays
5,190

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
female
Citizenship
Japan
Place of birth
Kyoto
Occupation
mangaka
Languages spoken
Japanese
Image
Mokona at Anime Expo 2006.jpg
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date of birth
1968-06-16
member of
Clamp
name in native language
もこな
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is the pen name of the lead artist, colorist, and composition designer of the all-female manga-artist team Clamp. She was formerly known as ; she dropped her last name because she claimed it sounded too "immature". Clamp has had a huge impact on the "manga explosion" according to an account in The New York Times in 2006. Their artwork has been characterized as "wispy", "fluid", and "dramatic" which has resonated with both male and female demographic readers of manga. The Tsubasa manga sold over a million copies in the United States, and television programs and DVD spinoffs based on the concept have been successful as well.

==References==

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