Nao Yazawa ( Yazawa Nao, born on July 29) is a Japanese manga artist born in Tokyo, Japan. Her most notable series is Wedding Peach, which was made into an anime series of the same name, and was published worldwide. Since then she has worked on manga of all sorts, some of which have been released first in English. In 2003, she released the shojo manga Nozomi, a story about a girl who makes a wish upon a falling star and meets a demon who teaches her about love. It was the first manga she drew for English readers.