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Hideko Mizuno (水野英子 Mizuno Hideko born 29 October 1939 in Shimonoseki Yamaguchi Japan) is one of the first successful female Japanese shōjo manga artists. She was an assistant of Osamu Tezuka staying in Tokiwa-sō. She made her professional debut in 1956 with Akakke Pony. She became a prominent shōjo artist in the 1960s and 1970s starting with White Troika which serialized in Margaret in 1963.