Hamtaro: Laura arriva in città

by Ritsuko Kawai (Creator)

Laura si è trasferita in una nuova città e si sente un po' sola. Ben presto, però, fa amicizia con altre ragazzine, specialmente con Camilla, che possiede anche lei un criceto, Ghiotto. Hamtaro, il criceto di Laura, ha così un nuovo amico, e fa poi la conoscenza di altri simpatici animaletti come lui: Bijou, Boss, Sciarpina, Timidy. Insieme formano la mitica banda degli Ham-Hams: li aspettano indimenticabili awenture! Come quella volta in cui cominciarono a piovere dal cielo strani diamanti di zucchero...

About the author

Ritsuko Kawai (河井 リツ子 Kawai Ritsuko, born March 3, 1964) is a Japanese manga artist known as the creator of the Hamtaro franchise. She was born in Osaka, Japan, and received a design degree from Kyoto Saga University of Arts. After graduation, she set out to Tokyo to seek her fortune as a comic-book artist.

Kawai originally created Hamtaro as storybooks for children first published in 1997 (serialized in Shogaku Ni Nensei, a magazine for Japanese schoolchildren published by Shogakukan) and adapted into an anime television series in Japan in July 2000. The animation series based on her Hamtaro books began broadcasting in English in the United States in July of 2002. Her Hamtaro books have sold more than 6 million copies in Japan.

Other than Hamtaro, Ritsuko Kawai has created other shōjo manga, serialized in Ciao magazine.