Itou, Hachi

I'm REALLY not into lolicon but her artstyle is GORGEOUS so I read whatever else she writes that's not onee-loli.

Marry me, please!

You're a goddes of Onee-Loli Hachi Itou-sensei! I'll praise you for that!
And I look forward to your doujinshi, oneshots and serialized works!

Btw I love your art style, it's cute (of course because it's all youjo/loli! )

This lady is my goddess, I love her works <3

The comments section of her works are always fun to read too lol

Translated from the site Yuri-navi (https://yurinavi.com/dic-itouhachi/):

Who is 伊藤ハチ Itou Hachi [Yuri Lily Encyclopedia]
Itou Hachi

Itou Hachi is a female manga artist active in Japan.

Itou Hachi "Overview"

Prior to becoming a manga artist, she majored in Nihonga (painting made in accordance with traditional Japanese artistic conventions) at an undergraduate art school, and later worked for an animation production company.

Her history in doujinshi is very long, and she has participated in many circles since 2007. At that time, unrelated to yuri, she was mainly writing Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. series and Moomin's secondary works. But one day, she awaked to yuri after seeing sisterly love between Melonpanna and Rollpanna from the Anpanman series. Since then, she began to release original yuri works.

Since 2012, she had released several works, but on December 3, 2013, she uploaded “[Original] Married Yuri Manga [Part 1]” on Pixiv. By the splendor of its contents, it received attention and acclaim, marking the beginning of her activity in various commercial magazines.

She participated in "Pure Yuri Anthology Hirari" on March 29, 2014. She wrote a yomikiri (a self-contained short) and a manga adaption of Yurirei-san (Kindred Spirits on the Roof).

Then, from July 5, 2014, “Sayuri's sister is an angel” was serialized on KADOKAWA's Comic Flapper. On January 23,
From July 18, 2015, the series “The Moon is Beautiful” started on Comic Yurihime. It was announced that the work will be made into a drama CD in conjunction with the special release of the third edition.

On June 13, 2016, the serialization of “The Master and the Girl in the Ears” started on WEB Comic At-Vitamin. The first volume was released on January 27, 2017, and was nominated for the WEB comic section of the “3rd Next Manga” Grand Prize.

On November 26, 2016, he participated in KADOKAWA's yuri anthology "Eclair: yuri anthology that resonates with you". Since then, he has continued to participate in the series.

At the moment, "At the master and the girl of the animal ears" on At-Vitamin and "The moon is beautiful" of Comic Yurihime is serialized.

She also participated in Yuri Exhibition 2017 held in Tokyo and Osaka in 2017. Both “The Master and the Little Girl in the Ears (KADOKAWA)” and “The Moon Is Beautiful (Ichijinsha)” were exhibited. Only Hachi Ito had exhibited multiple works from different publishers at the event.

Currently she is active in both commercial publications and doujinshi. In the case of doujin events, she exhibits at primarily yuri-centered ones, and her works are particularly popular among the genre, so the doujins are often sold out immediately. Caution is required for those participating in events to obtain works by Ito Hachi.

Style

Ito Hachi-sensei is characterized by a style that specializes in loli and kemono ears (e.g. catgirls). In particular, there is a strong tendency to favor non-humans elements (e.g. catgirl nekomimi), and most of her published works incorporates such elements in one way or another.

Her stories are aso atypical in that instead of high school students, they favors unique relationships such as One-loli (older woman and loli), sisters, master-slave relationships, and married couples. This has been inquired in an interview with Tia’s Magazine in the past, "I think it is fushigi [curious] that people have connections with one another. Especially married couples, who are ’separate individuals that become family by contract’ are uniquely intriguing and is fun to draw” said Ito Hachi.

In addition, because she is a former animator, her drawing ability (garyoku) is one of the strongest of many yuri artists.

The Person

While Itou Hachi is a very popular writer among yuri manga artists, she is also one that is quite mysterious.

In the yuri neighborhood (kaiwai, also industry), often characterized by many connections between yuri manga artists, it is uncommon to find someone like Ito Hachi who has so little interaction with others. In fact, she has been invited to autograph events (sign-kai) by publishing companies often, but has refused them all.

In addition, she is a manga artist with unexaustable mysteries, such as her icon with an utterly divergent style unimaginable from her comics. Fun fact, the creature of Ito Hachi's icon is supposedly a rabbit with a height of 2m10cm by the name of Tadokoro (Taken from her tweet).

Very rarely, she talks passionately about her preferences (interests) on Twitter. The timing of tweeting (due to the content) is often late into the night, and in many cases, it is erased in the morning. Those who were fortunate enough to see Ito Hachi’s tweets could be considered ‘lucky.’