Sumomo Yumeka is the pseudonym of a Japanese manga artist, who also writes as Mizu Sahara and Sahara Keita. She writes in a variety of demographics, publishing yaoi manga as Sumomo Yumeka, seinen manga as Mizu Sahara, and shōjo manga as Sahara Keita. She is best known in the West for The Day I Became a Butterfly and Same Cell Organism, both under the Yumeka byline, and the manga adaptation of Voices of a Distant Star under the Sahara byline. Her series My Girl is being adapted as a live-action television series which began broadcasting in October 2009.
