Maki Murakami

Maki Murakami ( Japanese 村上 真 紀 , Murakami Maki ; * May 24th in Hokkaidō ) is a Japanese manga artist .

Maki Murakami (2010)

Life

She published her first work as a professional draftsman in April 1995 with the short story Narushisuto no Higeki in the manga magazine Kimi to Boku , for which Tomoko Ninomiya and Momoko Sakura were also working at the time. For the magazine, which was primarily aimed at a female readership, she created her most successful work Gravitation to date from November 2001 until the magazine was discontinued with the spring 2001 issue . The manga series, which comprises around 2,200 pages in twelve anthologies, describes the love affair between a musician and a writer. The Shōnen Ai manga was implemented as an anime television series and as a novel series. After the draftsman had completed or broken off gravity , she published dojinshis on the Internet with explicit sex scenes between the characters.

Murakami's manga Gamerz Heaven! Comprises around 650 pages, which Mag Garden publishers also published in four anthologies . , which appeared in Comic Blade magazine from 2002 to 2004 . This is primarily aimed at a young, male readership, so it can be assigned to the Shōnen genre. All of the works she had published up to then were primarily aimed at a female target group. Gamerz Heaven! is about a video game fanatic youngster who realizes that a video game has become a reality and that he is now supposed to save the world.

Since 2006 the artist has been working on Gravitation Ex , a continuation of Gravitation . This first appears in the Genzo magazine , which is published on the Internet, and then in anthologies at Gentōsha- Verlag.

Her work has been translated into German, English, French, Norwegian, Spanish and Thai, among others.

Works

• Narcist no Higeki ( ナ ル シ ス ト の 悲劇 , Narushisuto no Higeki ), 1995
• Gravitation (グ ラ ビ テ ー シ ョ ン , Gurabitēshon ), 1995–2001
• Kimi no Unaji ni Kanpai! ( キ ミ の う な じ に 乾杯! ), 2000–2001
• Gamerz Heaven! ( ゲ ー マ ー ズ ヘ ブ ン! , Gēmāzu Hebun ), 2002–2004
• Gravitation Ex (グ ラ ビ テ ー シ ョ ン EX , Gurabitēshon Ex ), since 2006