Yana Toboso
Birthday	January 24, 1984
Birth Place	Warabi Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Age	28
Nationality	Japanese
Professional Status
Occupation	Mangaka
Known For	Kuroshitsuji

Yana Toboso (枢 やな, Toboso Yana), born January 24, 1984, and known by her pen names Yanao Rock and Takaragi Yana, is a Japanese manga artist. Her most significant work is the manga series Kuroshitsuji.

She currently lives in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. She has a blog and website called Devil's 6th Day.^[1]

AppearanceEdit

Yana Toboso draws herself as a devil with a black body and horns, a round white head, and a pointed tail. She has never showed a real picture of herself, so her actual appearance is unknown.

Before Volume 4, Toboso's devil had hair.^[2] Though, she later states that she had a bald spot the size of a ¥10 coin.^[3]

Likes and InterestsEdit

Yana is a known fan of the artist/bands: Slipknot, Linkin Park, Sid, Becca, Gackt, HYDE, Tommy heavenly6, UVERworld, L'arc~en~Ciel, Kalafina and Danny Elfman.

She also lists cats, sleep, vampires, and The Nightmare Before Christmas as some of her likes.^[4]

WorksEdit

• Glamorous Lip (Shotacon one-shot, under pen name Yanao Rock)
• Hana Shounen (Shotacon one-shot, under pen name Yanao Rock)
• Rust Blaster (One-shot shounen comic tragedy).
• Kuroshitsuji^[5]

TriviaEdit

• It is possible that Yana Toboso is a pen name. In the extras of Volume 2, her editor said that she "gave [her]self a difficult name like Toboso".^[6]

ReferencesEdit

1. ↑ Wikipedia:Yana Toboso
2. ↑ Kuroshitsuji manga; Volumes 1-3
3. ↑ Kuroshitsuji manga; Volume 4
4. ↑ Original Japanese: http://d-6th.com/profile/index.html
   Partial translation: http://forums.blackbutler.net/showthread.php?415-Yana-Toboso-General-Info
5. ↑ http://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=2823
6. ↑ Downstairs with Kuroshitsuji, Volume 2