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Minami Ozaki

b. 1968

Japanese manga artist

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Born 1968. Minami Ozaki is a Japanese mangaka and comics artist.

is a Japanese manga artist, cartoonist and illustrator of novels born on February 27, 1968, in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. She is famous for her best-selling manga series Zetsuai 1989, which is considered to have redefined the Shōnen-ai/Yaoi genres in the late 1980s/early 1990s. Her old pen name is , but in 1986 she changed her pen name to Minami Ozaki. She sometimes uses other pseudonym—.

In 1988 (at the age of 20), her first manga series, Chūsei no Akashi (Proof of Loyalty), was serialized in Margaret Comics.

Her success with Zetsuai 1989 has led Helen McCarthy to describe Ozaki as "one of the queens of shojo and shonen-ai manga". Through her Captain Tsubasa dojinshi, Ozaki "played a strong role" in "revamping the boys-love genre" in the 1980s. Her hallmark is "prolonged erotic psychodramas" which has earned her a "cult following" through Margaret. Rachel Thorn describes her as being a "mania-oriented" artist, with "extremely stylized" character designs and page layouts with a "dream-like quality". Her style had an enormous influence on later shōjo writers.

List of works Chūsei no Akashi, 1988 3 Days, 1989 Zetsuai 1989, 1989 Bad Blood, 1992 Bronze: Zetsuai Since 1989, since 1991 Devil Children, 2011 Boy Abyss

Dōjinshi Since 1984 Minami Ozaki has published many yaoi dōjinshi. The biggest circles are: NTT Calekka Club Doll Kreuz

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Who is Minami Ozaki?

Japanese manga artist

When was Minami Ozaki born?

Minami Ozaki was born on 27 February 1968 in Kanagawa Prefecture.

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Minami Ozaki is a mangaka and comics artist.

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Minami Ozaki is Japanese.

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· Wikipedia: Minami Ozaki

· Wikidata: Q247028

· DBpedia: Minami Ozaki

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