Yellow Tanabe

Yellow Tanabe (田辺イエロウ, Tanabe Ierou) is a Japanese manga artist. She is an assistant for Mitsuru Adachi and Makoto Raiku and made her debut in 2002 with the short story Lost Princess. She is best known for the manga series Kekkaishi, which has been adapted as an anime television series and translated into many languages. She published a one-shot story in the inaugural issue of the revival of Monthly Shōnen Sunday in May 2009.

Her blood type is AB. She was born on June 13th in Tokyo, and she graduated from the Musashino Art University.

In 2007 she won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga for Kekkaishi.

She portrays herself as a penguin with a big Y on its chest.