Nio Nakatani

is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known for creating the yuri manga series ''Bloom Into You'', which has been a commercial success and spawned a media franchise encompassing an anime, light novels, a stage play, and an anthology manga spinoff. Nakatani is also known as a creator of ''doujinshi'' works, particularly those based on the ''Touhou Project'' series. Her current work is ''God Bless the Mistaken'', currently being serialized in ''Dengeki Daioh''.

Nakatani is a native of Shiga Prefecture. She is a graduate of Kyoto Seika University. Provided by Wikipedia