Kanata Koami (Chi`s Sweet Home)

Konami Kanata (pen name used by Kanata Konami) was born on July 3, 1958, in Nagano, Japan.  A veteran manga artist Konami made her professional debut in 1982 with the serialized comic Petit Cat Jam-Jam for Kodansha`s semenal shoujo manga magazine NakaYoshi. The daughter of an elementary school teacher, most of Konami`s stories are for readers of all ages making her one of the most accessible artists in recent history.

In her nearly thirty year career, Konami has penned more than a dozen comic series, with the majority of them focusing on cats and pets. Konami is well regarded within the pet-manga community for her keen sense of cat ecology. Her ability to observe and render feline behavior has earned her respect from the Japanese manga community as a whole. While most of her properties were published for a younger female demographic, her most recent series Chi`s Sweet Home is currently being published by Kodansha`s Morning magazine, Japan`s leading comic magazine for adult readers.

Proving that quality can be found even in the cutest of sources.
Chi`s Sweet Home will be Konami`s first translated work.