is a Japanese anime screenwriter and manga author. After making her debut in The Tower of Druaga, she began serving as a script supervisor for several anime series and franchises, including Kin-iro Mosaic, Girls Beyond the Wasteland, The Seven Deadly Sins: Signs of Holy War, BanG Dream!, The Idolmaster SideM, Given, D4DJ, and The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies. She also works in the yuri genre, including a 2014 essay collection Chīsai Yuri Mītsuketa and preface for the entrance at the Yuriten 2017 convention.
Biography In 2008, while still a university student, Yuniko Ayana made her first screenwriting credit for the 2008 series The Tower of Druaga. She subsequently served as script supervisor for Kin-iro Mosaic, Locodol, and Merman in My Tub. She was hired to be the series composition writer for Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl by request of director Akiyuki Shinbo, who felt that the series would've been more interesting if the series composition was instead written from the perspective of a woman.
Ayana was script supervisor and, alongside , co-scenario writer for Makura no Danshi, as well as story concept creator for Flip Flappers. In 2016, she was script supervisor for Girls Beyond the Wasteland and The Seven Deadly Sins: Signs of Holy War. She was later script supervisor for The Idolmaster SideM, for which she and Yukie Sugawara won the 2018 Newtype Anime Awards Screenplay Award.
Ayana was the script supervisor for all three seasons of the BanG Dream! anime (2017-2020) and the 2021 sequel movie BanG Dream! Episode of Roselia, as well as the screenwriter for the 2022 sequel movie BanG Dream! Poppin'Dream!. In 2023, she was the screenwriter and script supervisor for the spinoff BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!!; she recalled in an interview with Comic Natalie that this job was challenging because she "had never written a script so realistically before". She also served as script supervisor for D4DJ First Mix, another Bushiroad anime. In February 2025, Ayana stated on Twitter that she had not been involved with the BanG Dream! franchise since late 2023, with her work on the series composition of BanG Dream! Ave Mujica and the scriptwriting of its first episode being her last contribution to the series. However, she also served as the screenwriter for the twelfth episode of the series. After the episode aired, she tweeted that due to frequently receiving "rude replies from netizens," she wanted to clarify that the "creepy and convoluted" settings in Ave Mujica had nothing to do with her, yet she later clarified that she "had no intention of disparaging the work at all".
Ayana later served as script supervisor for Given and Bikkurimen, as well as the screenwriter for the former's 2020 film sequel Given. She is serving as co-script supervisor (alongside Midori Gotō) for Narenare: Cheer for You! as well as script supervisor and screenwriter for The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies.
In 2014, Kadokawa published , an essay collection of Ayana's Newtype column of the same name, also including yuri manga she worked on. She was the writer of 's manga Sore ga Sekai no Futsū ni Naru, and the two held an autograph session at the Animega store in Shinjuku Marui Annex on 28 February 2015. She wrote the preface for the entrance at the Yuriten 2017 convention. She also works in theatre, being the screenwriter for Butai: Sasayaku yō ni Koi wo Utau.
Ayana is a member of the .
Filmography Animated television Year Title Notes 2011 Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl Series composition 2013–2015 Kin-iro Mosaic Series composition 2014 Locodol Series composition 2014 Merman in My Tub Series composition 2015 Makura no Danshi Series composition; co-scenario writer (with ) 2016 Flip Flappers Story concept 2016 Girls Beyond the Wasteland Series composition 2016 The Seven Deadly Sins: Signs of Holy War Series composition 2017–2020 BanG Dream! Series composition 2017 The Idolmaster SideM Series composition 2018 Lupin the 3rd Part V: Misadventures in France Screenwriter 2019 Given Series composition 2020 D4DJ First Mix Series composition 2023 Bikkurimen Series composition 2023 BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! Series composition and screenwriter 2023–2024 The Apothecary Diaries Screenwriter (Eps 8, 13, 17, 21) 2024 Narenare: Cheer for You! Series composition (with Midori Gotō) 2024 The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies Series composition and screenwriting 2025 BanG Dream! Ave Mujica Series composition and screenwriter 2025 Li'l Miss Vampire Can't Suck Right Series composition 2025 You and Idol Precure Screenwriter 2026 Kaiju Girl Caramelise Series composition 2027 Ore to Yu Nii! Series composition
Original video animation Year Title Notes 2012 Hori-san to Miyamura-kun Series composition, screenplay
Animated film Year Title 2020 Given 2021 BanG Dream! Episode of Roselia (as script supervisor) 2021 Kin-iro Mosaic: Thank You!! 2022 BanG Dream! Poppin'Dream!
Stage productions Year Title 2024 Butai: Sasayaku yō ni Koi wo Utau
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