Minene Sakurano

{{Short description|Japanese manga artist}}

{{notability|biography|date=January 2024}}

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{{expand Japanese|topic=bio|桜野みねね|date=August 2024}}

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| name = Minene Sakurano

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| native_name = {{nobold|桜野 みねね}}

| native_name_lang = ja

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1973|11|29}}{{Cite web|lang=ja|author=桜野みねね |url=https://profile.ameba.jp/ameba/minene-momofive/ |title=桜野みねねさんのプロフィールページ |website=Ameba |accessdate=2021-11-15}}

| birth_place = Sendai, Japan

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| occupation = Manga artist

| years_active = 1995–present

| notable_works = {{Plainlist|

• Mamotte Shugogetten
• Shōuindō no Emily: Sakurano Minene Short Story Collection
• Jōshū Tōzoku Aratamegata Hinagiku Kenzan!
• Healing Planet
• Mamotte Shugogetten! Retrouvailles
• Madoromyāna no Komoriuta
• Yggdrasil Liveline
• Hinagiku Kenzan: Ippon Ōkamachi-hen
• Fairial Garden
• Hoshi no Dai Circus

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{{nihongo|Minene Sakurano|桜野 みねね|Sakurano Minene|born 29 November 1973}} is the pen name{{cite web|url=http://www.mag-garden.co.jp/officialwebc/sakuranosono/sakuranosono_profile.htm|title=Profile|publisher=株式会社マッグガーデン|language=Japanese|accessdate=2008-01-12}} of a Japanese manga artist born on November 29 in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.

Sakurano made her debut in 1995 with her story Mother Doll, which tied for first place in the 1st Enix 21st Century Manga Prize contest, sharing the prize with Yasaka Mamiko's Kaze no Daidōzoku.{{cite web|url=http://emidb.at.infoseek.co.jp/synthesis/21thmgp.html |script-title=ja:エニックス21世紀マンガ大賞 受賞者一覧 |publisher=emidb.db |date=2007-01-16 |accessdate=2008-01-12 |language=Japanese |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050323052114/http://emidb.at.infoseek.co.jp/synthesis/21thmgp.html |archivedate=2005-03-23 }} Her representative work is Mamotte Shugogetten, which was adapted into an anime television series and an OVA series. After a dispute in 2001, Sakurano stopped publishing Shugogetten in Enix's Shōnen Gangan and moved the publication to Comic Blade, published by Mag Garden under the title Mamotte Shugogetten! Retrouvailles.