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Kanan Minami (水波 風南, Minami Kanan, born November 12, 1979^[1] in Saitama Prefecture) is a shōjo manga artist. She is best known for Honey x Honey Drops, which has been licensed in multiple languages and adapted as an original video animation (OVA). Her current series, Kyō, Koi o Hajimemasu, is a best-seller that regularly appears on the Tohan comics charts. She writes mainly for Shōjo Comic. She has sold more than 10 million copies.^[2] On the Nikkei Entertainment magazine's list of top 50 manga creators by the amount of sales since January 2010, Kanan Minami ranked 24 out of the 50 manga creators.^[2] Her representative work for the sales is Kyō, Koi o Hajimemasu. She sold 2,498,000 copies.^[2]

Minami gave birth to a daughter in 2014.^[3]

• Official website (in Japanese)
• Kanan Minami at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Kanan Minami at Media Arts Database (in Japanese)