Aki Shimizu (志水 アキ, Shimizu Aki) is a manga artist who hails from Ōmuta, Fukuoka. She contributed the art for Blood Sucker: Legend of Zipangu (2000), Graduale der Wolken (2001), and adapted a manga version of Suikoden III (2002) based on Konami's video game. In 2003, she began Qwan, an original story of her own. Source: Wikipedia (en)