Mizuki Tsujimura made her debut by winning the Mephisto Prize, in 2004, Best known as an author of dark mysteries, she won the Naoki in 2012. A Japan Booksellers' Award nominee, Anime Supremacy! was her first work to be published in English.

Naoshi Arakawa made his debut as a manga artist in 2007 with Tsumetai Kousha no Toki wa Tomaru (A School Frozen in Time), a manga adaptation of the award-winning mystery novel by Mizuki Tsujimura. He made his U.S. debut in 2015 with Your Lie in April, which along with its anime adaptation in 2015, became a hit with American audiences. His most recent series is Farewell, My Dear Cramer, which is currently available as a simulpub series and is the sequel to his Sayonara, Football manga about girls' soccer.