Est Em | |
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Born | Maki Satoh |
Nationality | Japanese |
Occupation | Manga artist |
Known for | Yaoi |
Website | est em's official site est em's blog |
Est Em (えすとえむ, Esu to Emu, S and M, stylized as est em[2]) is the pen name of Maki Satoh,[3] a Japanese manga artist.
She made her debut as a professional manga artist with three yaoi collections after being scouted in art school. She was a student of Rachel Thorn, who provided translations for some of the English licenses of her work.[4] Her work has been praised as having unusual maturity and depth, both for yaoi and for manga in general. She is currently working on non-yaoi manga.[4]
Two of her first manga have been released in English by Aurora Publishing, which is a direct subsidiary of the Japanese publishing company Ohzora Shuppan,[5] the original publishers of one of the works in question. A third has been licensed by Net Comics. In addition, her work Tableau Numbero 20, has been released by the Viz Media imprint Sublime.