Kazuya Minekura (峰倉かずや) is a Japanese manga artist most known for the Saiyuki series. Her other manga series include Wild Adapter, Shiritsu Araiso Koto Gakko Seitokai Shikkobu (Araiso Private School Student Council Executive Committee), and Stigma. Stigma is notable for being a full-color work, which is unusual for manga is generally drawn in black and white. Minekura never puts a real photo of herself in her Artist's Talk section. Instead, she draws herself as a naked chibi figure with a brown hair (either pulled back to a ponytail or with bangs covering half of its face).