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Aki Shimizu is a manga artist from Ōmuta, in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan. She is known for adapting Konami's Suikoden III into an eleven-volume manga series, creating the original seven-volume series Qwan, and illustrating Blood Sucker: Legend of Zipangu, which ran to twelve volumes. She began her professional illustration career in 1995.
Aki Shimizu is from Ōmuta, a city in Fukuoka prefecture, Japan.
Qwan is an original seven-volume manga series by Aki Shimizu, published in Monthly Comic Flapper beginning in 2002. She served as both writer and artist on the series, making it her first entirely self-authored long-form work.
Aki Shimizu's Suikoden III manga ran to eleven volumes. It was published in Monthly Comic Flapper starting in 2002 and was adapted from Konami's video game of the same name.
Blood Sucker: Legend of Zipangu ran to twelve volumes and was published in Comic Birz. Aki Shimizu contributed as the illustrator on the series, which first appeared in 2000.
Aki Shimizu is working on a manga version of Suikoden: Star Leap, listed in her bibliography under 2025. Her specific role is to illustrate one of the story's 108 heroes, a character named Shapur who comes from a place called Nameless Land.