Sakura Kinoshita

Sakura Kinoshita ( Japanese 木 下 さ く ら , Kinoshita Sakura ; * September 8th ) is a Japanese mangaka and illustrator .

Career

Kinoshita published her first series with Detective Loki in 1999 in Shōnen Gangan magazine at Square Enix . In this she describes how the Nordic god Loki is banished to the earth in the body of a child because of a joke and is only allowed to return to the kingdom of the gods as soon as he can drive evil from the hearts of people. In 2001 she broke off the series after seven published anthologies to, like many other illustrators of the Square Enix publishing house (including Kozue Amano and Nanae Chrono ) to switch to Mag Garden . She has been working for the Mag Garden magazine Comic Blade ever since. First she created a sequel around Loki with detective Loki Ragnarok until 2004, at the same time she started a second series with tactics , on which she worked in parallel with the mangaka Kazuko Higashiyama . Again figures from mythology form the framework, this time Yōkai from the Japanese : The human protagonist with the ability to see supernatural beings, together with a tengu , solves problems with spirits and demons in the Taishō period .

Both detective Loki and tactics succeeded . They have been translated into several languages ​​- including by Carlsen Verlag ( Detektiv Loki and tactics ) and TOKYOPOP ( Alice in Wonderland ) into German - and both filmed as anime TV series by Studio DEEN : Detective Loki 2003 and tactics 2004.

Kinoshita is also valued as an illustrator. She has published five art books since 2003 and a picture book based on Lewis Carroll's children 's book Alice in Wonderland in 2006 .

Works (selection)

• Detective Loki (魔 探 偵 ロ キ Matantei Roki ), 1999–2001
• Detective Loki Ragnarok (魔 探 偵 ロ キ RAGNAROK Matantei Roki Ragnarok ), 2002–2004
• tactics , since 2002
• Alice in Wonderland ( Alice in Wonderland. Picture Book ), 2006
• Akuma no Tsukurikata (悪 魔 の つ く り か た), since 2010

Web links

• Profile at Anime News Network (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kinoshitas Blog (Japanese)