Kyoko Okazaki
Kyoko Okazaki (Japanese: 岡崎 京子, Hepburn: Okazaki Kyōko, born December 13, 1963) is a Japanese manga artist. Okazaki often focuses on urban Japanese life in Tokyo from the 1980s and 1990s. Okazaki's characters are bold and freewheeling, holding unconventional sets of values. Her writings are often studded with modern jargon.[1] Okazaki is one of the early forebears of the gyaru manga style.[2]
Kyoko Okazaki | |
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| Born | December 13, 1963 Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation | Manga artist, Illustrator |
| Education | Atomi University |
| Years active | 1983–1996 |
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Life and career Edit
Kyoko Okazaki was born in 1963 in Tokyo. She lived in a family extended to fifteen people. Her father was a hairdresser and held a large drawing room. The whole family lived there together: grandparents, uncles and aunts, cousins, and even apprentice hairdressers. Okazaki often wondered what the family and the home can represent in these conditions. While living in a happy and peaceful environment, she has not been able to feel at ease in this large family.[3]
In 1983, while studying at Atomi Junior College, Okazaki made her debut as a professional manga artist with the short story in Manga Burikko, an erotic hentai manga magazine primarily aimed for male adults. 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.[4][5] 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.[5]
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.[3]
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.[6][7]
Okazaki is a fashion illustrator, and her manga illustrates the cutting-edge fashion and customs of Japan during the 1980s and 1990s. Okazaki's manga describes the loneliness and emptiness that characterizes this time period.[8]
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.[1] Helter Skelter was serialized in Shodensha's monthly Feel Young magazine at the time of writing and published as a single tankōbon volume in 2003.[9] In 2013, American Kodansha imprint Vertical, Inc. published the manga in English under the title Helter Skelter: Fashion Unfriendly.[10]
In May 1996, Okazaki was hit by a drunk driver and sustained severe injuries, and went on hiatus to rehabilitate.[8]
Legacy Edit
More than 20 years after taking a break from writing, her past works were still being reprinted intermittently and had also been made into live-action movies.[8]
Her early work for erotic and pulp manga magazines in the 1980s is considered pioneering in the way it dealt directly with the sexuality of young women outside of the norms of shōjo manga. Together with other female artists who worked for hentai magazines such as Erica Sakurazawa, Shungicu Uchida and Yōko Kondo, she is sometimes referred to as "onna no ko H mangaka" ("women H cartoonists").[11]
Bibliography Edit
| Title | Year | Notes | Refs[12][13][7][14] |
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| Virgin (バージン, Bājin) | 1983–84 1985 (vol.) | Serialized in Manga Burikko Published by Byakuya Shobo | [15] |
| Second Virgin (セカンド バージン, Sekando Bājin) | 1985–86 1986 (vol.) | Serialized in Action / Futabasha Published by Futabasha | [16] |
| Boyfriend Is Better (ボーイフレンド is ベター, Bōifurendo Izu betā) | 1985–86 1986 (vol.) | Serialized in Asuka/Kadokawa Shoten / Jets Comics Published by Hakusensha | [17] |
| Taikutsu ga Daisuki (退屈が大好き, lit. "I love boredom") | 1987 | Serialized in Comic Skola Published by Kawadeshoboshinsha | [18] |
| Take It Easy (TAKE IT EASY (テイクイットイージー), Teikuittoījī) | 1986–87 1989 (vol.) | Serialized in Comic Burger Published by Sony Magazine | [19] |
| Kuchibiru kara Sandanjuu (ja:くちびるから散弾銃, lit. "Shotgun from lips") | 1987–90 | Serialized in Monthly Me Twin Published by Kodansha, 2 volumes | [20] |
| Jioramabōi panoramagāru (ja:ジオラマボーイ パノラマガール, Georama Boy Panorama Girl) | 1988 1989 | Serialized in Heibon Punch Published by Magazine House | [21] |
| Suki Suki Daikirai (好き好き大嫌い) | 1989 | Published in various magazines Published by Takarajimasha | [22] |
| Pink (ja:pink) | 1989 | Serialized in New Punch Zaurus Published by Magazine House | [5][4][23] |
| Chocola na Kimochi (ショコラな気持ち) | 1990 | Published by Fusousha | |
| Tokyo Girls Bravo (ja:東京ガールズブラボー, Tōkyō gāruzuburabō) | 1990–92 1993 (vol.) | Serialized in Monthly Cutie Published by Takarajimasha, 2 volumes | [24] |
| Rock | 1989–90 1991 (vol.) | Serialized in Monthly Cutie Published by Takarajimasha | [25] |
| Happy House (ハッピィ ハウス, Happi Hausu) | 1990–91 1992 | Serialized in Comic Giga Published by Shufu to Seikatsusha, 2 volumes | [26] |
| Kikenna Futari (危険な二人, Dangerous Twosome) | 1991–92 1992 (vol.) | Serialized in Young Rose Published by Kadokawa Shoten | [27] |
| Cartoons (カトゥーンズ, Kato~ūnzu) | 1990–92 1992 (vol.) | serialized in Monthly Kadokawa June issues Published by Kadokawa Shoten | [28] |
| Chocola Everyday (ショコラ・エブリデイ, Shokora eburidei) | 1989–91 1992 (vol.) | Serialized in Peewee/Sony Magazines Published by Mainichi Shinbunsha | [29] |
| Ai no Seikatsu (愛の生活, La Vie d'Amour, Life of Love) | 1992–93 1993 (voi.) | Serialized on Young Rose Published by Kadokawa Shoten | [30] |
| Magic Point (マジック ポイント) | 1993 | Serialized in Feel Comics Published by Shodensha | [31] |
| River's Edge (リバーズ エッジ) | 1993–94 1994 (vol.) | Serialized in Monthly Cutie Published by Takarajimasha | [32] |
| End of the World (エンド オヴ ザ ワールド) | 1994 | Published by Shodensha | [33] |
| Am I Your Toy? (私は貴兄(あなた)のオモチャなの, Watashi wa Anata no Omocha nano?) | 1994 1995 (vol.) | Published in Monthly Feel Young Published by Shodensha | [34] |
| Heterosexual (ヘテロセクシャル) | 1995 | Serialized in Young Rose Published by Kadokawa Shoten | [35] |
| Chiwawa-chan (チワワちゃん, Chihuahua-chan) | 1996 | serialized in Young Rose Published by Kadokawa Shoten | [36] |
| Untitled (アンタイトルド) | 1998 | Serialized in Asuka Comics Deluxe Published by Kadokawa Shoten | [37] |
| Helter Skelter | 1995 2003 (vol.) | Serialized in Monthly Feel Young Published by Shodensha | [38] |
| Like What Is Falling Love? (恋とはどういうものかしら?, Ai to wa dō iu mono kashira?) | 2003 | Published by Magazine House | [39] |
| Utakata no Hibi (うたかたの日々, Utakata Days) | 1994–95 2003 (vol.) | Serialized in Monthly Cutie Published by Takarajimasha | [40] |
| Touhou Kenbunroku (東方見聞録) | 2008 | Published by Syogakukan Creative | [41] |
| Okazaki Kyoko Mikan Sakuhinshu Mori (岡崎京子未刊作品集 森) | 2011 | Published by Shodensha | [42] |
| Rude Boy | 2012 | Published by Takarajimasha | [43] |
| Rarities (レアリティーズ) | 2015 | Published by Heibonsha | [44] |
See also Edit
References Edit
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External links Edit
- List of all of Okazaki's work at the Media Arts Database (Japanese)