# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ai-yazawa
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:12:06.586Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ai-yazawa"
name: "Ai Yazawa"
slug: "ai-yazawa"
description: "Ai Yazawa  is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator. Yazawa debuted as a manga artist with her short story Ano Natsu (1985). She gained mainstream popularity in the 1990s and 2000s with her series I'm No Angel (1991), Neighborhood Story (1995), Paradise Kiss (1999), and Nana (2000), the latter being one of the best-selling manga series. Since June 2009, Yazawa has been focusing on illustration projects due to health concerns."
tagline: "Japanese manga author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ai_Yazawa.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1967-03-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.94
  momentum:             3.531239720552697
  historical:           23.45200266666667
  currentAttention:     14.80916030534351
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1303246/"
    handle:    "nm1303246"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "أي يازاوا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ai Yazawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ai Yazawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Yazawa"
    title: "Ai Yazawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Yazawa"
    title: "Ai Yazawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ai Yazawa"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazava_Ai"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Այ Յազավա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ai Yazawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9F%A2%E6%B2%A2%E3%81%82%E3%81%84"
    title: "矢沢あい"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ай Ядзава"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "야자와 아이"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ai Yazawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ядзава, Ай"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Аи Јазава"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Yazawa"
    title: "Ai Yazawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Yazawa"
    title: "Ai Yazawa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D0%90%D0%B9"
    title: "Ядзава Ай"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234425"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/114724"
    title: "Ai Yazawa"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump