Minami Ozaki

Minami Ozaki
Born	February 27, 1968 (1968-02-27) (age 43) Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
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 80s/early 90s. Her old penname is Ryo Minami (南亮, Minami Ryo^?), but in 1986 she changed her penname 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 [sic] and shonen-ai [sic] manga".^[1] Through her Captain Tsubasa dojinshi, Ozaki "played a strong role" in "revamping the boys-love genre" in the 80s.^[2] Her hallmark is "prolonged erotic psychodramas" which has earned her a "cult following" through Margaret.^[3] Matt 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

• Chūsei no Akashi, 1988
• 3 Days, 1989
• Zetsuai 1989, 1989
• Bad Blood, 1992
• Bronze: Zetsuai Since 1989, since 1991

Doujinshi

Since 1984 Minami Ozaki has published a lot of yaoi doujinshi. The biggest circles are:

• NTT
• Calekka
• Club Doll
• Kreuz

References

1. ^ McCarthy, Helen (1 January 2006). 500 Manga Heroes and Villains. Barron's Educational Series. pp. 43. ISBN 978-0764132018. 
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. ^ http://www.matt-thorn.com/shoujo_manga/girls_stuff/gs94-01-10.html
5. ^ (Russian) Ivanov, Boris (2001). Vvedenie v iaponskuiu animatsiiu (2 ed.). Moscow: Фонд развития кинематографии; РОФ «Эйзенштейновский центр исследований кинокультуры». pp. 335. ISBN 5901631013. 

External links

• Official website (Japanese)
• Minami Ozaki at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia

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Name	Ozaki, Minami
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Date of birth	February 27, 1968
Place of birth	Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
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