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Kyoko Okazaki
Kyoko Okazaki (Japanese: 岡崎 京子, Hepburn: Okazaki Kyōko; born December 13, 1963) is a Japanese manga artist. During her career from the mid-1980s until the mid-1990s, she published her work in seinen manga magazines, josei manga magazines as well as fashion magazines. She produced around 20 volumes of manga, the most famous being Pink (1989), River's Edge (1993–1994) and Helter Skelter (1995). Her work was discussed in academic literature for breaking the norms of shōjo manga of the 1970s with depictions of female sexuality as well as for capturing the zeitgeist of her native Tokyo at the time of writing. Since an accident in 1996, she has not published new work.
Kyoko Okazaki was born in 1963 in Tokyo. Her father was a hairdresser and held a large drawing room. She lived in the house in a family extended to fifteen people, including grandparents, uncles and aunts, cousins, and apprentice hairdressers. Okazaki often wondered what the family and the home can represent in these conditions. She recounts that while living in a happy and peaceful environment, she was not able to feel at ease in this large family.
In 1983, while studying at Atomi University, Okazaki made her debut as a professional manga artist with a short story in Manga Burikko, an erotic hentai manga magazine primarily aimed for adult men. She published several more short stories in the magazine. In 1985, after graduating from college, she published her first manga series Virgin, and in 1989, she wrote Pink, which is about an office worker in her early 20s who works as a call girl at night in order to help support her pet crocodile. This work firmly established her reputation as a manga artist. Okazaki also worked on the series Tokyo Girls Bravo, which was published in CUTIE, a mainstream Japanese fashion magazine aimed at teens. Okazaki has also worked as a fashion illustrator herself.
In 1992, she released Happy House, which is about a 13-year-old daughter of a television director and actress, who are often too busy to care for her children. When the teenager faces the possible divorce of her parents, she does not want to live with her father or mother, because she feels that she cannot be happy with either one of them. Instead, she dreams of leaving her home to live alone and earn her own money so she can emancipate herself from her parents.
While previously, shōjo manga magazines would not publish Okazaki's work, in the 1990s new manga magazines with an older female audience appeared, such as Feel Young and Young Rose. She mainly worked for these magazines from then on.
In 1994, Okazaki put on a solo exhibition at the grand opening of the experimental art space, P-House, in Tokyo. From 1993 to 1994, she did a serialization called River's Edge and portrayed the conflicts and problems experienced by high-schoolers living in a suburb in Tokyo. This series had a big influence on the literary world.
From 1995 to 1996, she worked on Helter Skelter, which features a beautiful model, Ririko, whose body underwent a total cosmetic surgery, and illustrates the accelerating derailment of her success. Here, Okazaki exposes with much reality the obsession, jealousy, and deprivation caused by the desire to acquire “beauty” and the overpowering economic and commercial circumstances surrounding such desire. Helter Skelter was serialized in Shodensha's monthly Feel Young magazine at the time of writing and published later as a single tankōbon volume in 2003.
After her marriage, on May 19, 1996, at approximately 6:30 p.m. JST, Okazaki and her husband were walking near their home when they were hit and run by an SUV driven by a drunk driver. She was seriously injured to the extent that she could not breathe on her own, and her continued disturbance of consciousness forced her to take a creative break and undergo long-term medical treatment. She has not published new work since.
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Kyoko Okazaki
Kyoko Okazaki (Japanese: 岡崎 京子, Hepburn: Okazaki Kyōko; born December 13, 1963) is a Japanese manga artist. During her career from the mid-1980s until the mid-1990s, she published her work in seinen manga magazines, josei manga magazines as well as fashion magazines. She produced around 20 volumes of manga, the most famous being Pink (1989), River's Edge (1993–1994) and Helter Skelter (1995). Her work was discussed in academic literature for breaking the norms of shōjo manga of the 1970s with depictions of female sexuality as well as for capturing the zeitgeist of her native Tokyo at the time of writing. Since an accident in 1996, she has not published new work.
Kyoko Okazaki was born in 1963 in Tokyo. Her father was a hairdresser and held a large drawing room. She lived in the house in a family extended to fifteen people, including grandparents, uncles and aunts, cousins, and apprentice hairdressers. Okazaki often wondered what the family and the home can represent in these conditions. She recounts that while living in a happy and peaceful environment, she was not able to feel at ease in this large family.
In 1983, while studying at Atomi University, Okazaki made her debut as a professional manga artist with a short story in Manga Burikko, an erotic hentai manga magazine primarily aimed for adult men. She published several more short stories in the magazine. In 1985, after graduating from college, she published her first manga series Virgin, and in 1989, she wrote Pink, which is about an office worker in her early 20s who works as a call girl at night in order to help support her pet crocodile. This work firmly established her reputation as a manga artist. Okazaki also worked on the series Tokyo Girls Bravo, which was published in CUTIE, a mainstream Japanese fashion magazine aimed at teens. Okazaki has also worked as a fashion illustrator herself.
In 1992, she released Happy House, which is about a 13-year-old daughter of a television director and actress, who are often too busy to care for her children. When the teenager faces the possible divorce of her parents, she does not want to live with her father or mother, because she feels that she cannot be happy with either one of them. Instead, she dreams of leaving her home to live alone and earn her own money so she can emancipate herself from her parents.
While previously, shōjo manga magazines would not publish Okazaki's work, in the 1990s new manga magazines with an older female audience appeared, such as Feel Young and Young Rose. She mainly worked for these magazines from then on.
In 1994, Okazaki put on a solo exhibition at the grand opening of the experimental art space, P-House, in Tokyo. From 1993 to 1994, she did a serialization called River's Edge and portrayed the conflicts and problems experienced by high-schoolers living in a suburb in Tokyo. This series had a big influence on the literary world.
From 1995 to 1996, she worked on Helter Skelter, which features a beautiful model, Ririko, whose body underwent a total cosmetic surgery, and illustrates the accelerating derailment of her success. Here, Okazaki exposes with much reality the obsession, jealousy, and deprivation caused by the desire to acquire “beauty” and the overpowering economic and commercial circumstances surrounding such desire. Helter Skelter was serialized in Shodensha's monthly Feel Young magazine at the time of writing and published later as a single tankōbon volume in 2003.
After her marriage, on May 19, 1996, at approximately 6:30 p.m. JST, Okazaki and her husband were walking near their home when they were hit and run by an SUV driven by a drunk driver. She was seriously injured to the extent that she could not breathe on her own, and her continued disturbance of consciousness forced her to take a creative break and undergo long-term medical treatment. She has not published new work since.