Sumomo Yumeka (夢花 李, Yumeka Sumomo?) is the pseudonym of a Japanese manga artist, who also writes as Mizu Sahara (佐原 ミズ, Sahara Mizu?) and Keita Sahara (佐原 恵太, Sahara Keita?). She writes in a variety of demographics, publishing yaoi manga as Sumomo Yumeka, seinen manga as Mizu Sahara, and shōjo manga as Sahara Keita. She is best known in the West for The Day I Became a Butterfly and Same Cell Organism, both under the Yumeka byline, and the manga adaptation of Voices of a Distant Star under Mizu Sahara. Her series My Girl is being adapted as a live-action television series which began broadcasting in October 2009. Little is known about Sumomo Yumeka. She is popularly known under this pseudonym in the yaoi community but has also published works under the names Mizu Sahara (佐原ミズ, Sahara Mizu?) for her seinen works, Keita Sahara (佐原恵太, Sahara Keita?) for her shōjo works and Chikyuya/Sasshi (地球屋/さっし?) for doujinshi. She draws herself as a ...