Yun Kōga

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Yun Kōga
木村 理沙
Manga artist
Known forEarthian, Loveless
SpouseTatsuneko
Children1
Websiteyunk.jp

Risa Kimura (木村 理沙, Kimura Risa, born July 9, 1965), better known by her

manga artist. She is married to fellow manga artist Tatsuneko, from whom he took the name of Risa Yamada (山田 理沙, Yamada Risa). She is a graduate of Mita Senior High School, Tokyo. She currently lives in Setagaya, Tokyo
with her husband and daughter.

Profile

She began her career as a

dōjinshi artist creating dōjinshi for works such as Saint Seiya, Captain Tsubasa
and Maōden.

She debuted in a commercial magazine with the original work Metal Heart (serialized in Kobunsha's Comic VAL from November 1986). After her debut, she continued to contribute on numerous dōjin works. However, the later disbanding of a dōjin circle, Yajō Teikoku, she had founded with Maki Chikura, led to her taking numerous breaks from her commercial works. Due to this, there were incomplete works penned by her during this period.

During her years in middle school, she had been a fan of Masami Kurumada's manga series Ring ni Kakero, Fūma no Kojirō, Saint Seiya (all serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump) and B't X (serialized in Monthly Shōnen Ace), sending Kurumada numerous fan letters asking to meet him, after which Kurumada finally agreed, inviting her to his workplace.

When asked about her penname in an interview in the September 2006 issue of Puff, she responded that she had originally thought of making it Jun Kōga, but subsequently changed it to Yun Kōga.

Among her noted works is

Faust
.

In 2007, she contributed the character designs to the

.

Manga works

Unfinished/current works

  • Loveless (LOVELESS) 2001–
  • Tenshichō (天使庁) 2002–2007
  • Kill Me (KILL ME) 2003–2006
  • Satō-kun and Tanaka-san -The blood highschool (佐藤くんと田中さん -The blood highschool) 2007–
  • Kurumada Suidoken Hero of Heroes (車田水滸伝 HERO OF HEROES) 2013–

Completed works

  • Rōrakaizā (ローラカイザー) 1988–1993
  • REN AI - Renai - (REN-AI 恋愛) 1989–1999
  • La Vie en Rose (LA VIE EN ROSE) 1995–1998

Incomplete works

  • B-gata Doumei (B型同盟) 1988–1989
  • Genji (源氏) 1988–1995
  • Yajō Teikoku (夜嬢帝国) 1988–1989
  • Arisu in Wonderland (ありす IN WONDERLAND) 1989–1992
  • Vanpu - Kyūketsu no To - (ヴァンプ-吸血の徒-) 1989–1995
  • Hurricane Hill (ハリケーン・ヒル) 1997
  • Chronicle (クロニクル) 1998

Short works

  • Metal Heart (メタルハート) 1986
  • Mind Size (マインドサイズ) 1986–1988
  • Glass Magic (グラス・マジック) 1988
  • Hot Staff '88 (ほっと・すたっふ'88) 1988
  • Ōkami wo Meguru Bouken (狼をめぐる冒険) 1989
  • Kugatsu no Natsu (9月の夏) 1989
  • Yakusoku no Natsu (約束の夏) 1991
  • Yousei Jiken 1992 (妖精事件 1992) 1992
  • Kurayamizaka (暗闇坂) 1999

Collaborations

Artbook collections

Other works

Original character designs

Illustrations

  • Makenden (Seika Nagare)
  • Mangaka Marina series (Hitomi Fujimoto)
  • High School Aura Buster (Mio Wakagi)
  • Light Gene no Isan (Chōhei Kambayashi)
  • Moerurubu Tokyo Annai 2006

References

  1. ^ Losert, Jörg (February 2, 2010). "Gestalt". AnimePro.de (in German).

External links

  • Media related to Yun Kouga at Wikimedia Commons