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Gurihiru.

Illustrator · Japan

Gurihiru: the Eisner-winning Japanese art duo behind the Avatar and Marvel comics, whose glowing full-colour work brings Osamu Tezuka's Unico to a new generation, tender, adventurous and beginner-friendly.

Gurihiru is a Japan-based art team, Chifuyu Sasaki on pencils and inks and Naoko Kawano on colour, working together from Saitama under a single studio name. Long celebrated for their glowing full-colour work on the Avatar: The Last Airbender graphic novels and for Marvel, and winners of multiple Eisner Awards, they bring the same warmth and clarity to children's comics. In our corpus they illustrate the Unico manga revival, written by Samuel Sattin and developed with Tezuka Productions, a full-colour reimagining of Osamu Tezuka's little unicorn who can fill hearts with love, is banished by a jealous goddess, and must hold onto kindness and courage across a saga of loss, friendship and reunion. Their art is beautifully drawn, emotionally rich and welcoming to newcomers, threading kindness, resilience and good against evil through every page.