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Michiyo Akaishi (赤石 路代 Akaishi Michiyo, born October 11, 1959) is a Japanese manga artist born in Urawa (now Saitama), Saitama Prefecture, Japan. She graduated from Saitama Prefectural Dai-Ichi Girls High School. Akaishi then attended Musashino Art University where she graduated with a degree in commercial plastic model design. In 1979, she won first place in the Shogakukan Shinjin Comic Award contest. From then on, she has worked for Shogakukan.

Akaishi's debut story, ''Marshmallow Tea wa Hitori de'', appeared in the January 1980 issue of ''Bessatsu Shōjo Comic''. Another series, ''One More Jump'', won the 1994 Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga.

!!Some of her works are:
* ''Manga/AkatsukiNoAria''
* ''Manga/{{Amakusa 1637}}''
* ''Angel Trumpet''
* ''Cinema no Teikoku''
* ''Desert Storm''
* ''Manga/HonooNoAlpenRose''
* ''One More Jump''
* ''Manga/PrivateActress''
* ''Manga/TenYoriMoHoshiYoriMo''
* ''Manga/TowaKamoShirenai''

!!Some tropes found in her works are:
* ActionGirl[=/=]MagicalGirl: Some of her leads.
* TheBeautifulElite
* BittersweetEnding - EarnYourHappyEnding
* ComingOfAgeStory: Many of the characters in her stories go through lots of changes in their viewpoints and beliefs
* {{Josei}}: Her most recent ones, like: ''Desert Storm'', ''Cinema no Teikoku'', ''Manga/{{Amakusa 1637}}'', ''Asterisk'', ''Manga/PrivateActress'' and ''Manga/AkatsukiNoAria''.
* HotterAndSexier: When Akaishi started her career, her {{official couple}}s rarely went beyond kisses and SleepCute scenes. As soon as she switched to {{josei}}, however, she ditched this and the lovers tended to go relatively early into physical intimacy; i.e, in ''Manga/PrivateActress'' [[spoiler: Shiho and Tomoomi sleep together few after meeting, are quite sexually active after they start dating, and it's later revealed that she gave her virginity to her [[TheLostLenore now-deceased]] FirstLove years before meeting Tomoomi himself.]]
* LoveConfession: Uncommonly for shoujo and josei manga, more than one of Akaishi's heroines declare their love to their boys pretty soon. ''And'' they're more often than not [[RelationshipUpgrade loved back!]]
* OfficialCoupleOrdealSyndrome: LoveHurts in her stories. It REALLY does
* OnlySixFaces
* OrdinaryHighschoolStudent: Many of her leads begin as such.
* PluckyGirl: * All the female leads created by Akaishi are this in one way or another. [[Manga/TenyoriMoHoshiYoriMo Mio Mizumori]] tries to master her MakingASplash powers and protect herself from her StalkerWithACrush, [[Manga/HonooNoAlpenRose Jeudi]] will never stop looking for the truth behind her lost family and get away from her own StalkerWithACrush, [[Manga/PrivateActress Shiho Kobayakawa]] perseveres in her Private Actress work, [[Manga/AkatsukiNoAria Aria Kanbara]] will keep working in her dream to be a musician...
* {{Reincarnation}} - ReincarnationRomance: A good number of her plots are related to past lives.
* {{Shoujo}}: Her earlier works: ''Manga/HonooNoAlpenRose'', ''Manga/TenYoriMoHoshiYoriMo'', ''Manga/TowaKamoShirenai'', etc..
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