Mia Ikumi(征海未亜Ikumi Mia) is a Japanese mangaka best known for Tokyo Mew Mew, a manga series she created with Reiko Yoshida. Ikumi was born on March 27 and is from the Osaka Prefecture. She often wears cat ears to her book signings, and interesting costumes. Mia's first manga story The Sleeping Beauty of Strawberry Forest was written when she was just 18 years old.