Kore Yamazaki

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Kore Yamazaki ( ヤ マ ザ キ コ レ Yamazaki Kore , born June 10, 1990 in Hokkaido ) is a Japanese mangaka .

Life

Yamazaki was born in Hokkaido , the youngest of four children . Since the age difference to her older siblings was very large, she spent most of her childhood alone. She started painting manga at the age of seven. She made the decision to become a manga writer at high school .

Works

Kore Yamazaki wrote her first manga in 2012 and is called Futari no Renai Shoka . Previously published self-written dōjinshi on the Internet . She gained international fame with the manga The Magician's Bride , published in 2013 . The manga has sold over four million copies in Japan alone and has since been translated into 14 languages. Several volumes of the manga series made it onto the New York Times' Manga bestseller list . Yamazaki started her third manga series with Ms. Faust in 2014.

inspiration

As a child, she read many fantasy books about fairies , the action of which took place in England . In an interview, Yamazaki said that she was inspired by Celtic mythology .

Publications

Awards and nominations

year Award category For result swell
2015 Manga Taishō Manga The magician's bride Place 12 of 14
2017 PENG! Comic award Best manga Won

Web links

Individual evidence

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  10. "Bang!" - comic prize goes to Fil. Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 28, 2017, accessed on January 24, 2019 .