Japanese Name: 天野明

Place of Birth: Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Gender: Female

Information for Authors: Born in 1973. In 1998, she received Excellent New Face Award for Seinen Category at the 38th [Chiba Tetsuya](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=502) Award. [Reborn!](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=366) first appeared in Weekly Shonen Jump as a stand-alone short story in late 2003. The massive success of this one-shot story led Weekly Shonen Jump to begin serializing Reborn! in mid-2004. Amano is the original character designer for the [Psycho-Pass](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=85841) franchise. [SAKAKI Kenji](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=11750), [KAITO](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=16769), [AIMOTO Shou](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=3839), [SAIZAKI Ren](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=8393) & [MIZUKI Shion](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=18698) were her assistants on Reborn! She and [USUTA Kyousuke](https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=837) are friends.