Minami Ozaki
Born (1968-02-27) February 27, 1968 (age 56)
Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
NationalityJapanese
Area(s)Manga Artist
Notable works
Zetsuai 1989

Minami Ozaki (尾崎南, Ozaki Minami) is a Japanese manga artist, cartoonist and illustrator of novels born on February 27, 1968, in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. She is famous for her best-selling manga series Zetsuai 1989, which is considered to have redefined the Shōnen-ai/Yaoi genres in the late 1980s/early 1990s. Her old pen name is Ryo Minami (南亮, Minami Ryo), but in 1986 she changed her pen name to Minami Ozaki. She sometimes uses other pseudonym—Minami Himemuro (姫室ミナミ).

In 1988 (at the age of 20), her first manga series, Chūsei no Akashi (Proof of Loyalty), was serialized in Margaret Comics.

Her success with Zetsuai 1989 has led Helen McCarthy to describe Ozaki as "one of the queens of shojo and shonen-ai manga".[1] Through her Captain Tsubasa dojinshi, Ozaki "played a strong role" in "revamping the boys-love genre" in the 1980s.[2] Her hallmark is "prolonged erotic psychodramas" which has earned her a "cult following" through Margaret.[3] Rachel Thorn describes her as being a "mania-oriented" artist, with "extremely stylized" character designs and page layouts with a "dream-like quality".[4] Her style had an enormous influence on later shōjo writers.[5]

List of works

Dōjinshi

Since 1984 Minami Ozaki has published many yaoi dōjinshi. The biggest circles are:

References

  1. ^ McCarthy, Helen (1 January 2006). 500 Manga Heroes and Villains. Barron's Educational Series. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-7641-3201-8.
  2. ^ Sabucco, Veruska "Guided Fan Fiction: Western "Readings" of Japanese Homosexual-Themed Texts" in Berry, Chris, Fran Martin, and Audrey Yue (editors) (2003). Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia. Durham, North Carolina; London: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-3087-3. page 84
  3. ^ Paul Gravett (2004) Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics (Harper Design, ISBN 1-85669-391-0) page 90
  4. ^ Thorn, Rachel. "Girls' Stuff--Yet More Mini Intros". Archived from the original on 2004-05-30.
  5. ^ Ivanov, Boris (2001). Vvedenie v iaponskuiu animatsiiu (in Russian) (2 ed.). Moscow: Фонд развития кинематографии; РОФ «Эйзенштейновский центр исследований кинокультуры». p. 335. ISBN 5-901631-01-3.

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