Yumi Hotta

堀田由美

Yumi Hotta is a Japanese manga artist. Hotta is best known as the author of the best-selling manga and anime series [Hikaru no Go](https://anilist.co/manga/30020/Hikaru-no-Go/), which is widely credited for the late 90s-2000s boom of the game of go in Japan. The idea behind Hikaru no Go began when Yumi Hotta played a pick-up game of go with her father-in-law. She thought that it might be fun to create a manga based on this traditional board game, and began the work under the title of Nine Stars (九つの星, Kokonotsu no Hoshi), named for the nine "star points" on a go board. She later worked with [Takeshi Obata](https://anilist.co/staff/96888/Takeshi-Obata) (the illustrator) and [Yukari Umezawa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukari_Yoshihara) (5-Dan, the supervisor) in the creation of Hikaru no Go. She won the 2000 Shogakukan Manga Award and the 2003 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize for Hikaru no Go.

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