Yoshiki SudaYoshiki Suda is a Japanese writer and manga original author whose work focuses on character-driven stories drawn from real lives and contemporary professional experience. A graduate of the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Engineering he began his career writing essays and serialized nonfiction about personal identity, career pressure, and the emotional realities behind public achievement.

His best-known work, The Crybaby Mermaid: An Illustrated Memoir of Yumi Uotani, follows professional player Yumi Uotani as she faces self-doubt and performance pressure while gradually building confidence and emotional resilience in a demanding profession.

Suda's work takes a documentary-style approach to personal experience, focusing on how people handle expectations, setbacks, and the slow process of inner growth behind visible success. His stories explore the private effort and adjustment required to sustain a career under modern professional and social pressures.