Keiko Suenobu

Keiko Suenobu ( Japanese す え の ぶ け い こ , Suenobu Keiko ; born March 1979 in Kitakyūshū , Fukuoka Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist . Her works can be assigned to the Shōjo genre, which is aimed primarily at female adolescents.

Life

Keiko Suenobu's first manga publications as a professional illustrator were short stories. Two of her first short works were contained in the anthologies Saikyō no Jun'ai ( 最強 の 純愛 ) and Kandō no Jun'ai ( 感動 の 純愛 ). Other authors also worked for these anthologies, in which stories about the topic of love were published.

Suenobu published his first long manga in 2001 with Vitamin , which deals with the subject of bullying in Japanese schools. The manga series published in the manga magazine Bessatsu Friend comprises over 200 pages and has also been translated into German. Her final breakthrough came with Life , which she has been drawing for Bessatsu Friend since 2002. Life covers topics such as self-harm and has become a success in Japan. The manga, the first nine volumes of which had sold four million times in Japan by summer 2005, won the Kodansha Manga Prize in 2006 , consists of over 2000 pages (as of June 2006) and is also published in English and German, among other things. but Heyne-Verlag stopped further production and translation. Heyne justified this with the fact that there is not too much demand in Germany.

Works

• Vitamin (ビ タ ミ ン ), 2001
• Life (ラ イ フ ), since 2002
• Happy Tomorrow ( ハ ッ ピ ー ・ ト ゥ モ ロ ー ), 2003
• Limit ( リ ミ ッ ト ), 2009

Web links

• Suenobus publications at Kodansha.jp (Japanese)