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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 80s/early 90s. Her old penname is , but in 1986 she changed her penname 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 80s.〔Sabucco, Veruska "Guided Fan Fiction: Western "Readings" of Japanese Homosexual-Themed Texts" in Berry, Chris, Fran Martin, and Audrey Yue (editors) (2003). Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia. Durham, North Carolina; London: Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-3087-3. page 84〕 Her hallmark is "prolonged erotic psychodramas" which has earned her a "cult following" through Margaret.〔Paul Gravett (2004) Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics (Harper Design, ISBN 1-85669-391-0) page 90〕 Matt Thorn describes her as being a "mania-oriented" artist, with "extremely stylized" character designs and page layouts with a "dream-like quality".〔http://www.matt-thorn.com/shoujo_manga/girls_stuff/gs94-01-10.html〕 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 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Minami Ozaki」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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