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Keiko Takemiya is a Japanese manga artist, professor, and university administrator who was a leading figure in the shojo manga scene during the 1970s as part of the Year 24 Group. She is regarded as one of the first successful crossover women artists to create both shojo and shonen manga, and is credited with pioneering the shonen-ai genre of stories about romantic relationships between young men.
The Year 24 Group is a term coined by academics and critics to refer to a group of female manga artists born in 1949, the 24th year of the Showa era, who transformed shojo manga in the early 1970s. Before their work, shojo manga was created primarily by male authors; this group shifted the genre to female authorship and introduced greater realism to the stories.
In 1970, Takemiya published Sunroom Nite ("In the Sunroom") in Bessatsu Shojo Comic, a historical short story depicting a tragic romance between a Romani boy and his wealthy classmate. It is considered possibly the first shonen-ai manga ever published and contains the earliest known male-male kiss in shojo manga.
Takemiya received the 9th Seiun Award for best science fiction manga for Toward the Terra in 1978. In 1980, she won the 25th Shogakukan Manga Award in both the shojo and shonen categories for Kaze to Ki no Uta and Toward the Terra together.
Takemiya has taught at Kyoto Seika University's Faculty of Manga since 2000. She served as Dean of the Faculty of Manga from April 2008 to March 2013, and then as president of the university from April 2014 to March 2018. Kyoto Seika is the only university in Japan with its own manga department and a museum showcasing manga art.
In 2019, Takemiya opposed a Japanese Diet bill that would have expanded copyright control on the internet for publishers, warning it could harm fan fiction creation. She stated: "Fan fiction represents a love for manga. We don't want the close relationship between artists and fans to collapse." The bill was ultimately withdrawn.