Miki Hayasaka(早坂未紀Hayasaka Miki) is an illustrator and manga artist born on 1955-09-05 in Toyama Prefecture, Japan. After graduating from high school in 1973, he moved to Tokyo and began attending classes at Chiyoda Designer Academy, though he left before completing his degree. During the mid-1970s, he worked as a background artist for Shinji Wada, helping with works such as Sukeban Deka. He joined the dōjinshi circle Trouble Maker(トラブルメーカーToraburu Mēkā) in 1975, and worked as an assistant to Motoka Murakami during the mid- to late 1970s.