Mayu Shinjo

Likes: Ayumi Hamasaki, BUCK-TICK, Glay, Gundam, hot springs, Nirvana, roses, Stone Temple Pilots, Sting, The Matrix, Top Gun, U2

Hobbies: cars, feng shui, shopping

Height: about 151 cm

Was an assistant to: Yoshihara Yuki

Former assistant: Osakabe Mashin

Shinjou Mayu, born January 26, 1973 is a Japanese manga artist. She debuted in 1994 in Shogakukan's Shoujo Comic with Anata no Iro ni Somaritai. She continued writing for Shogakukan until 2007, with her works appearing in both Shoujo Comic and their other magazine Cheese!. She left the company to go freelance citing a dispute over working conditions and abusive treatment by her editor.

Shinjou made her debut at publisher Shogakukan in 1994, drawing series for Shoujo Comic magazine. In 2007 she left the company, noting that her editors were excessively demanding and abusive, creating a stressful work environment.

In her blog, Shinjou noted that though she was the actual creator of her manga titles, she was one of the last to know about any adaptation plans for her series, even learning about some through TV channel websites instead of her editor. When she decided to leave, one editor threatened to take all of her earlier series out of print, but Shinjou contacted a lawyer and the threat was never carried out.

Mayu Shinjo is a popular smut-shoujo manga artist. Her works range from sweet and innocent to almost borderline-H. She loves big-chested girls with cute faces and wishes all her manga could feature them. She says that she relies deeply on her assistants, calls herself a trend whore, loves scandalous things, considers herself a foreigner otaku and a Disney maniac, likes to drink, and is in love with video/audio.

She left Shogakukan in 2007 because of alleged abuse from her editors and now works for Kadokawa and Shueisha.

She runs a doujinshi circle called "Liliental" and for her doujinshi, she uses the pseudonym, Maru Shinozaki.

On November 12th 2014, she did an interview saying that she is going to quit writing shoujo and start writing BL, stating that she is a men lover. She mentioned in her Twitter that if she is creating a manga, it will be a BL or stories about male relationship.