- Paru Itagaki is known for Beastars (2019).
- Itagaki cites Disney animated movies and the artists Nicolas de Crécy (a French cartoonist/animator/comic writer) and Egon Schiele (a modernist painter) as an influence on her work.
- As a teenager she developed the character Legoshi, an anthropomorphic wolf who would later appear in her manga series "Beastars".
- Itagaki is highly private about her personal life and wears a chicken mask to obscure her face at all public appearances.
- Is the daughter of manga writer Keisuke Itagaki, but did not disclose this until September 2019, wishing to establish herself as a writer independent from her father's success.
- Itagaki began painting in kindergarten, and started drawing manga in the second grade.
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