Kyōko Okazaki

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Kyōko Okazaki ( Japanese 岡 崎 京 子 , Okazaki Kyōko ; born December 13, 1963 in Setagaya , Tokyo , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist .

Life

She published her first work as a professional manga artist in 1983. This appeared in the manga magazine Manga Burikko , which mainly specialized in erotic comics and was aimed at a male readership. Although Okazaki continued to work primarily for men's magazines (including Melty Lemon , Comic Burger, and Comic Tom ) in the years that followed, her work had a major impact on female illustrators. So she was next to Shungiku Uchida and Erica Sakurazawa one of the most important representatives of a new movement in Shōjo and Josei manga. "Okazaki incorporated the latest fashions and behavior patterns of the 1980s and 1990s into her mangas with a light stroke of the pen, clearly showing the hidden loneliness and emptiness of the era for which she was loved by young people."

From the beginning of the 1990s, her comics appeared in the fashion magazine CUTiE . She created two of her most famous works for this magazine between 1990 and 1994: Tōkyō Girls Bravo and River's Edge . The latter takes place at a Japanese high school near a river. A corpse lies hidden in the bushes by the river. Okazaki focuses on a homosexual student who is bullied by his classmates and his girlfriend. Both know about the corpse but tell no one about it. River's Edge was filmed by Isao Yukisada in 2018 .

For the progressive manga magazine Feel Young , which is aimed at adult women, the author created the manga series Helter Skelter from 1995 to 1996 , in which a supermodel who has undergone numerous cosmetic surgeries and his career is described.

Helter Skelter was left unfinished because Okazaki was hit by a drunk driver on May 19, 1996 and has not recovered from the injuries for a long time. She has not published a new comic since then. Instead, their works are being reissued. A new edition of Helter Skelter earned her the 2003 Prize for Excellence at the Japan Media Arts Festival and the 2004 Osamu Tezuka Culture Prize .

Your work will be translated into Chinese, German and French.

Works

  • Virgin , 1985
  • Take It Easy , 1986-1987
  • pink , 1989
  • Tōkyō Girls Bravo ( 東京 ガ ー ル ズ ・ ブ ラ ボ ー ), 1990–1992
  • Ai no Seikatsu ( 愛 の 生活 ), 1993
  • River's Edge ( リ バ ー ズ ・ エ ッ ジ ), 1993-1994
  • Untitled , 1994-1995
  • Helter Skelter (ヘ ル タ ー ス ケ ル タ ー ), 1995–1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jaqueline Berndt : Phenomenon Manga . edition q, Berlin 1995. p. 187. ISBN 3-86124-289-3 .
  2. ↑ Masanao Amano: Manga Design . P. 144.
personal data
SURNAME Okazaki, Kyōko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 岡 崎 京 子 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese manga artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Setagaya , Tokyo, Japan