page layouts with dissolving or overflowing panels. Rachel Thorn calls her use of light, white space and fluid page layouts "unprecedented" in shōjo manga. She been compared to fellow manga artist Ai Yazawa for her play with depth and layering. Critic Eiji Ōtsuka considers Tsumugi's experimentation with form in her work in the second half of the 1980s as the peak of a visual trend in shōjo manga that was established by the Year 24 Group in the 1970s. This trend weakened in the 1990s, as readers had problems understanding manga with a more experimental form and instead of this a visual trend called "flatness" emerged, as seen in the works of artists Kiriko Nananan, Erica Sakurazawa and Moyoco Anno. Influences Tsumugi considers Fusako Kuramochi an important influence, especially in terms of framing and use of monologues. Legacy Rachel Thorn considers Tsumugi to be the most innovative shōjo artist of the 1980s. Midori Kusaka credits her with bringing "reality" into shōjo manga by focusing on themes like abortion in "Yokohama, 14-sai, Yūko" and everyday life of ordinary high school students in the countryside in Mabataki mo Sezu, as opposed to the idealized storytelling of romance in shōjo manga before her (e.g. the idealization of boys love). Several musicians and manga artists were influenced by her work. Daisuke Igarashi mentioned Tsumugi's experimentation with form and space as an inspiration for his own manga. Musicians Yutaka Ozaki and Kishidan lead singer SHOW cite Tsumugi as an inspiration. Her work from the 1980s continued to be read and re-printed, especially Hot Road. Around the 50th anniversary of Margaret and Bessatsu Margaret in 2013 and 2014, Hot Road was adapted into a live-action film, original pages of the manga were featured in two exhibitions in Tokyo celebrating the anniversary and the magazines You and Bessatsu Margaret published tributes to the series. In 2016, original pages of Hot Road were exhibited in Sendai. Works The following is a list of Tsumugi's serialized works and short story collections as well as short stories that were analyzed in literature. References 1964 births Manga artists from Kanagawa Prefecture Women manga artists Living people