| Mari Okazaki おかざき 真里 | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 15, 1967 Nagano, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Area(s) | Manga artist |
Mari Okazaki (おかざき 真里, Okazaki Mari, born June 15, 1967 in Nagano, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist.[1]
Life
Okazaki started drawing in high school and submitted her illustrations to different magazines. For her, this was both a training for art school, which she wanted to apply for, and a way to make money from the prize money. She had saved more than 1 million yen when graduating from high school. The magazine Fanroad by the publisher Rapport published her first manga. She enrolled in and graduated from Tama Art University with a major in design. After university, she worked for the advertising company Hakuhodo, doing conceptual and design work.[1][2]
Her career as a manga artist became more successful in 1994, when she won a newcomers' award of Bouquet magazine, published the short story "Bathroom Gūwa" and started becoming a regular contributor for the magazine afterwards. Okazaki herself considers this to be her proper debut as a professional manga artist. She was a regular contributor for [[Cookie (Japanese magazine)|{{Nihongo|Cookie]] from its first issue, the successor to Bouquet. She continued working in advertising until 2001, when she decided to completely focus on her career as a manga artist.[1][3][4] Her first longer series was Suppli, which she published from 2003 to 2009 in the josei magazine Feel Young and which is set in an advertising company.[2] While working on Suppli, she gave birth to three children.[5]
Okazaki worked occasionally for seinen magazines already in the early 2000s. From 2014 to 2021, her first longer series for a seinen magazine was published in Monthly Big Comic Spirits, the historical manga A-un. The series is her most critically acclaimed work so far. It was commended by manga authors Ryoko Yamagishi, Yuki Suetsugu and Masami Yuki and writers Rio Shimamoto and Kazuki Kaneshiro.[6] A-un was one of the Jury Recommended Works at the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival in 2020.[7]
Several of her manga, among them Kanojo ga Shinjatta and Shibuya ku Maruyama cho, have been adapted as live-action films or TV series. Her work has been translated into English, French[8] and Polish.
Works
| Title | Year | Notes | Refs |
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| Marine (マリーン, Marīn) | 1988 | Compiled in 1 vol. | |
| Tōchū Kasō (冬虫夏草) | 1994 | Compiled in 1 vol. | |
| Shutter Love (シャッターラブ, Shattā Rabu) | 1998 | Compiled in 1 vol. | |
| BX | 1999 | Compiled in 1 vol. | |
| Bathroom Gūwa (バスルーム寓話, Basurūmu Gūwa) | 2000 | Short story collection published by Shueisha in 1 vol. | |
| Kanojo ga Shinjatta (彼女が死んじゃった) | 2000–01 | Serialized in Business Jump compiled in 2 vol. |
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| Yawarakai Kara (やわらかい殻) | 2001 | Compiled in 1 vol. | |
| Sweat & Honey (セックスのあと男の子の汗はハチミツのにおいがする, Sekkusu no Ato Otokonoko no Ase wa Hachimitsu no Nioi ga Suru) | 2002 | Serialized in Zipper Comic Compiled in 1 vol., translated into English by Tokyopop |
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| 12 Kagetsu (12ヶ月) | 2002–03 | Compiled in 1 vol. | |
| Suppli (サプリ, Sapuri) | 2003–09 | Serialized in Feel Young Compiled in 10 vol., translated into English by Tokyopop |
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| Shibuya ku Maruyama-cho (渋谷区円山町) | 2003–04, 2007–09 | Serialized in Cookie Compiled in 4 vol. |
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| Gin ni Naru (銀になる) | 2006 | Compiled in 1 vol. | |
| Watakushi no Kekkonshiki! (私の結婚式!) | 2006 | Compiled in 1 vol. | |
| Suppli Extra (サプリExtra) | 2010 | Serialized in Feel Young Compiled in 1 vol. |
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| & | 2010–14 | Serialized in Feel Young Compiled in 14 vol. |
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| A-un (阿・吽) | 2014–21 | Serialized in Monthly Big Comic Spirits Compiled in 14 vol. |
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| Will I Be Single Forever? (ずっと独身でいるつもり?, Zutto Dokushin de Iru Tsumori?) | 2014–15 | Serialized in Feel Young Compiled in 1 vol., translated into English by Viz Media |
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| Kashimashi Meshi (かしましめし) | 2016–present | Serialized in Feel Young Compiled in 5 vol. (as of January 2023) |
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| Haibaiyōshi Mizuiro (胚培養士ミズイロ) | 2022–present | Serialized in Big Comic Spirits | [9] |
References
- 1 2 3 "Catalogue manga - OKAZAKI Mari". archive.wikiwix.com. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
- 1 2 "Mari Okazaki - Interview 2". archive.wikiwix.com. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
- ↑ 実業之日本社 (26 December 2018). オカザキマリ｜実業之日本社 (in Japanese).
- ↑ "Cookie". cookie.shueisha.co.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-06.
- ↑ "おかざき真里×LINEマンガ編集者・小林俊一、マンガ業界人が新たな才能発掘のため赤裸々談義！ - コミックナタリー 特集・インタビュー". Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-06.
- ↑ おかざき真里が描く最澄＆空海の物語「阿・吽」2巻に山岸凉子らコメント. Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. May 12, 2015. Retrieved February 3, 2021.
- ↑ "Manga Division – 2020 [23rd] Japan Media Arts Festival Archive". Japan Media Arts Festival. Archived from the original on March 18, 2021. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
- ↑ "OKAZAKI Mari". manga-news.com (in French). Retrieved 2023-01-06.
- 1 2 3 "Mari Okazaki Launches New Manga About Embryologist on October 3". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2023-01-05.