is the pen name of Maki Satoh, a Japanese

manga artist A is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. As of 2006, about 3,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan. Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist be ...

Career

She made her debut as a professional manga artist with three

yaoi ''Yaoi'' (; ja, やおい ), also known by the '' wasei-eigo'' construction and its abbreviation , is a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that features homoerotic relationships between male characters. It is typically created ...

collections after being scouted in art school. She was a student of

Rachel Thorn Rachel Thorn (formerly Matt Thorn; born May 12, 1965) is a cultural anthropologist and an associate professor in the Department of Manga Production at Kyoto Seika University's Faculty of Manga in Japan. She is best known in North America for h ...

, who provided translations for some of the English licenses of her work. Her work has been praised as having unusual maturity and depth, both for yaoi and for manga in general. She is currently working on non-yaoi manga. Two of her first manga have been released in English by

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, which is a direct subsidiary of the Japanese publishing company Ohzora Shuppan, the original publishers of one of the works in question. A third has been licensed by

Net Comics Netcomics is a publisher of manhwa, webtoons, manga, and comics in the United States, based in Los Angeles, CA, contributing to the Korean Wave. South Korean publisher Ecomix Media Company created NETCOMICS, with the first titles appearing ...

. In addition, her work Tableau Numbero 20, has been released by the

Viz Media VIZ Media LLC is an American manga publisher, anime distributor and entertainment company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1986 as VIZ LLC. In 2005, VIZ LLC and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current VIZ M ...

imprint Sublime.

Bibliography

* , 2006, published by Tokyou Mangasha :Licensed in English as ''

Seduce Me After the Show is a yaoi, Boys' Love manga by est em released in English by Aurora Publishing (United States), Aurora Publishing in April 2008. It will be republished in English by Digital Manga. It was released in French as ''Tango'' by Editions H. ''Seduc ...

'' by

Deux Press Aurora Publishing, Inc. was the American subsidiary of Japanese publisher Ohzora Publishing, the leading ''josei'' manga publisher in Japan. Headquartered in Torrance, California, it licensed and published Japanese manga for the North America ...

and subsequently by

Digital Manga Digital Manga is a California-based publishing company that licenses and releases Japanese manga, anime, and related merchandise in the English language. Digital Manga also owns and operates eManga, a digital publishing site for manga and ...

(Digital Manga Guild) *''Tableau No. 20'', 2007–2009, published by Be x Boy Gold * , 2008, published by Tokyou Mangasha :Licensed in English as '' Age Called Blue'' by

* , 2008, published by Ohzora Shuppan :Licensed in English as ''

Red Blinds the Foolish is a Japanese yaoi manga written and illustrated by est em. Initially serialized in '' Mellow Mellow'', the individual chapters were published in a single ''tankōbon'' volume by Ohzora Publishing in January 2008. The volume also includes some ...

'' by

* , 2008, published by Tokyo Mangasha :Licensed in English by

(Digital Manga Guild) * , 2008, published by Tokyo Mangasha :Licensed in English by

(Digital Manga Guild) * , 2010–2011, published by Kurofune Zero * ''Equus'', 2010–2011 * , 2011–2014, published by

Shogakukan is a Japanese publisher of Japanese dictionaries, dictionaries, literature, comics (manga), non-fiction, DVDs, and other media in Japan. Shogakukan founded Shueisha, which also founded Hakusensha. These are three separate companies, but are to ...

*''Ii ne! Hikaru Genji-kun'' (いいね!光源氏くん), 2015–2021, published by

Shodensha is a Japanese publisher of mostly non-fiction magazines and books, though it has recently begun publishing light novels and manga, including magazines which contain both. Shodensha publishes magazines such as '' Feel Young'' (a josei all-manga m ...

Feel Young ''Feel Young'' is a monthly josei manga magazine published by Shodensha in Japan. Manga artists whose stories have run in this magazine include Moyoco Anno, Mitsue Aoki, Mitsukazu Mihara, Kiriko Nananan, Mari Okazaki, Erica Sakurazawa, Ebine Y ...

References

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