Who we are

Alien Sisterhood is an independently owned graphic novel and art studio, created, run, and fueled by me, Hikaru Just.
It’s the culmination of a lifetime of drawing, escaping, and turning survival into stories.

I grew up in a small town in southern Japan, the kind of place where the world feels both quiet and heavy.
From as far back as I can remember, I was drawing, creating stories, inventing my own languages, countries, and even religions where my cat was the god.

Art was the escape hatch I built for myself inside an abusive household. While other kids were worried about grades and fitting in, I was busy slipping into the universes I made on scraps of paper.

School never made sense to me.
I couldn’t sit still in a box when my mind was always expanding into new worlds. Art and storytelling were both my survival and my rebellion.

I married young, trying to follow a path I thought I was supposed to. But the moment my eyes opened to the bigger world, I knew I couldn’t stay. That marriage became part of the past, and with it, a part of me that didn’t know my own strength yet.

Through all the trials, there were years when I couldn’t even bring myself to draw. The pen felt too heavy.
But eventually, I picked it up again. I realized it’s never too late to start over, to reclaim the parts of yourself you thought were gone.

Now I’m based in Los Angeles, finally living as the artist and storyteller I always knew I was.
Through Alien Sisterhood and my graphic novels, I tell the stories of young women, stories of survival, transformation, and the strange, beautiful ways we find ourselves again.

This is just the beginning.