Kaoru Mori

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Kaoru Mori ( Japanese 森 薫 , Mori Kaoru ; born September 18, 1978 in Tokyo Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist .

After graduating from high school, she drew comics as an amateur for the dojinshi market. In 2002 she got her first professional publication in the Comic Beam magazine of the Enterbrain publishing house; this was the first episode of her series Emma - A Victorian Love ( エ マ , Ema ). In this series, the title character is a maid in Victorian England . Social circumstances hinder the maid's love for a noblewoman. The manga ended in 2006 after more than 1,300 pages, which were also published in ten edited volumes.

Emma - A Victorian love became a success for the illustrator. The anthologies have sold over 1.45 million copies in Japan and have been translated into nine languages ​​(Chinese, Korean, English, German, French, Swedish, Italian, Spanish and Finnish). Two anime television series in 26 episodes and two novels were based on the comics and Mori was awarded the Prize for Excellence at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2005.

Emma is Mori's longest work to date. In 2003, the single volume Shirley ( シ ャ ー リ ー , Shārī ) was released by Enterbrain . This manga depicts the everyday life of a teenage maid in the Victorian era. In 2006, Mori brought out two more chapters with the same maid as the main character in a special Comic Beam magazine. One of the few professional comics by the illustrator that does not deal with the social circumstances (such as class differences) in England during the reign of Victoria was published in 2004 in Comic Beam with the short story Sumire no Hana ( す み れ の 花 ), which Kaoru Mori based on a scenario Drawn by Satoshi Fukushima . This short manga describes two girls in modern Japan whose initial friendship turns into love.

Since 2006, the illustrator has been working on Emma - Bangaihen ( エ マ 番外篇 ), a follow-up series to Emma , in which the secondary characters are discussed in more detail.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Emma (manga) . Anime News Network. Retrieved July 21, 2013.
  2. ↑ Description of a DVD box for the Emma cartoon series on Amazon Japan
personal data
SURNAME Mori, Kaoru
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 森 薫 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese manga artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo Prefecture , Japan