# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kanan-minami
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:50:57.630Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kanan-minami"
name: "Kanan Minami"
slug: "kanan-minami"
description: "Kanan Minami  is a shōjo manga artist. She is best known for Honey x Honey Drops, which has been licensed in multiple languages and adapted as an original video animation (OVA). Her current series, Kyō, Koi o Hajimemasu, is a best-seller that regularly appears on the Tohan comics charts. She writes mainly for Shōjo Comic. She has sold more than 10 million copies. On the Nikkei Entertainment magazine's list of top 50 manga creators by the amount of sales since January 2010, Kanan Minami ranked 24 out of the 50 manga creators. Her representative work for the sales is Kyō, Koi o Hajimemasu. She sold 2,498,000 copies."
tagline: "Japanese manga artist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1979-11-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.03
  momentum:             3.0292607390163
  historical:           8.976497333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/minami_kanan_"
    handle:    "minami_kanan_"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4784105/"
    handle:    "nm4784105"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://aquarich.blog41.fc2.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B0%B4%E6%B3%A2%E9%A3%8E%E5%8D%97"
    title: "水波风南"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A"
    title: "كنان مينامي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%89"
    title: "كنان مينامى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanan_Minami"
    title: "Kanan Minami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanan_Minami"
    title: "Kanan Minami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanan_Minami"
    title: "Kanan Minami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B0%B4%E6%B3%A2%E9%A2%A8%E5%8D%97"
    title: "水波風南"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanan_Minami"
    title: "Kanan Minami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Минами, Канан"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q443171"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1187481"
    title: "Kanan Minami"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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