Wataru Yoshizumi

{{short description|Japanese manga artist}}

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| name = Wataru Yoshizumi
吉住 渉

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| birth_name = {{nihongo|Mariko Nakai|中井 真里子}}

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|6|18}}

| birth_place = Tokyo, Japan

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| nationality = Japanese

| occupation = Manga artist

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| notableworks = Marmalade Boy, Ultra Maniac

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| years_active = 1984–present

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{{nihongo|Wataru Yoshizumi|吉住 渉|Yoshizumi Wataru}} is a Japanese manga artist. She was born as {{nihongo|Mariko Nakai|中井 真里子|Nakai Mariko}} on June 18, 1963 in Tokyo, Japan. She graduated with a degree in economics from Hitotsubashi University.

Yoshizumi started her career as a Japanese manga artist while working as an office lady. Her debut manga was a yomikiri (short story) called "Radical Romance" that was published in 1984, in the summer issue of Ribon Original. She is known as a social{{clarify|date=June 2023}} manga artist,{{Citation needed|date=September 2007}} and is a good friend of fellow manga artists Naoko Takeuchi, Ai Yazawa, Miho Obana, and Megumi Mizusawa.

As of 2011, Yoshizumi has had works serialized in Ribon, Chorus, and Margaret.