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Kamome Shirahama

Japanese manga artist and illustrator

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Kamome Shirahama is a Japanese freelance manga artist and illustrator. She is best known as the creator of her Witch Hat Atelier series. She has created variant covers and other illustrations for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and stories in the Star Wars franchise. She did the character designs for The Elder, part of the Star Wars: Visions short film series released in 2021, and she wrote the 2022 manga adaptation for it. She has also provided illustrations for the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

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The public source identifies “Kamome Shirahama” as japanese manga artist and illustrator. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kamome, Shirahama and Japanese.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Kamome, Shirahama and Japanese providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Kamome Shirahama” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.