Kazue Kato

In 2020, she did the character designs for the Godzilla Singular Point television series. In July 2021, she announced Blue Exorcist would be put on hiatus so she could launch a manga adaptation of Fuyumi Ono's Eizen Karukaya Kaiitan novel series.

Following Robo to Usakichi's completion, she was approached by the editorial department of Jump Square to serialize a manga in the magazine. She eventually developed Blue Exorcist, which started serialization in Jump Square on April 4, 2009. The seventh volume of the series had an initial print run of one million copies; the series was the first manga in Jump Square to achieve such a feat. In the first half of 2017, the series was the eleventh best selling manga in Japan. The series has also been given numerous adaptations, including an anime series that ran for two seasons and a film.

Kazue Kato (Japanese: 加藤和恵, Hepburn: Katō Kazue, born July 20, 1980) is a Japanese manga artist. She debuted in 2000 with a one-shot in Akamaru Jump before publishing a full series in Monthly Shōnen Sirius. Following that series completion, she launched Blue Exorcist in Jump Square.

Kazue Kato was born on July 20, 1980 in Tokyo. She has two younger siblings, a brother and a sister. In high school, she had aspirations to be an animator. However, her dad did not feel she was serious enough about it, so he sent her to college. However, she left college and decided to become a manga artist instead. After publishing several one-shots, she made her first full series, Robo to Usakichi. It was serialized in Monthly Shōnen Sirius from 2005 to 2007.