name: Mari Okazaki
birth_date: 1967-06-15 00:00:00
genres: Comics, Manga
avg_rating: 3.65
ratings_count: 2030
about: Mari Okazaki (Japanese: おかざき真里, Okazaki Mari) is a Japanese manga artist. Okazaki was born in Nagano in 1967 and grew up in the region of Kansai. She graduated with a major in Design from Tama Art University and worked in advertisement for a number of years. Okazaki had been publishing illustrations and short comics since high school, although her professional manga career started around 1994. In the early 2000's she left her day job to become a full time cartoonist and illustrator. Okazaki comics have appeared in josei magazines (marketed to an audience of young adult women) as well as seinen magazines (marketed to an audience of young adult men). Her longest completed manga series to date are the josei Suppli, serialised from 2003 to 2009 Mari Okazaki (Japanese: おかざき真里, Okazaki Mari) is a Japanese manga artist. Okazaki was born in Nagano in 1967 and grew up in the region of Kansai. She graduated with a major in Design from Tama Art University and worked in advertisement for a number of years. Okazaki had been publishing illustrations and short comics since high school, although her professional manga career started around 1994. In the early 2000's she left her day job to become a full time cartoonist and illustrator. Okazaki comics have appeared in josei magazines (marketed to an audience of young adult women) as well as seinen magazines (marketed to an audience of young adult men). Her longest completed manga series to date are the josei Suppli, serialised from 2003 to 2009, and the seinen A-Un, serialised from 2014 to 2021. ...more