Hatsu Akiko is a Japanese manga artist born on December 16, 1959, in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.[(ja) Masao Azuma & Ishidō Ran Nihon Gensō Sakka Jiten, Kokusho Kankokai, (2009), pp.912 to 913. The writer of this article is Akemi Arisato (有里朱美), who may be the same person of Alisato in alisato.web.]
Career
From the time she was in high school, she assisted her older sister, professional manga artist
Yukiko Kai.
After graduating high school, she began working for a printing company in Kanazawa City, but she soon quit in order to become a full-time assistant to her sister.
She also began to assist other professional artists, most notably
Moto Hagio.
Throughout this period, Hatsu was creating self-published manga with her friend Yasuko Sakata (who also went on to become a prominent professional manga artist), and sometime around 1980, the two of them coined the term yaoi.[Kotani Mari, foreword to Saitō Tamaki (2007) "Otaku Sexuality" in Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., and Takayuki Tatsumi ed., page 223 Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams University of Minnesota Press "Around 1980, the female manga artists Sakata Yasuko and Hatsu Akiko coined this word to describe the male-male sex manga they were publishing in the magazine Rappori."] In 1980, Yukiko Kai died of stomach cancer at the age of 26.[Published by Minori Shobo. ALLAN was shōnen-ai focused magazine, similar to the magazine June.] with the short story Nami no Banka.
Her work has been published in numerous magazines, including DUO (published by Asahi Sonorama), Gurēpufurūtsu (published by Shinshokan), Petit Flower (published by Shogakukan, later retitled flowers), Nemureru Yo no Kimyō na Hanashi (published by the Asahi Shimbun, later retitled ネムキ).
Works
- Bīkyū Paradaisu!
- (April 1984)
- Hikari no Niwa, Kaze no Tatsu Kagei
- (July 1987)
- Pāfekuto Jentoruman
- (November 1988, bunko edition released June 2000)
- Sazameku Kin no Nami
- (July 1989)
- Enjakuan yo banashi
- (September 1989, bunko edition December 1999)
- Ome ni Kakarete
- (April 1990, bunko edition June 2000)
- Uryūdō Yume Banashi
- (Published in Nemurenu yo no Kimyō na Hanashi later from 1991 until 2007.) A series of short occult mystery stories set in Meiji Period Japan and featuring Ren, a young man who works in an antique shop named Uryūdō and who can see and communicate with the spirits that inhabit antiques.
- Mizu ni Sumu Oni
- (July 1992, Asahi Sonorama, bunko edition September 2000, new edition October 2007); published in English in 2000 by ComicsOne.
[Available in e-book format at http://ebooks.ebookmall.com/author/hatsu-akiko-ebooks.htm . (Accessed September 18, 2008).]
- Shūrin no Ki
- (November 1992, Asahi Sonorama; bunko edition 2001 (Hakusensha), new edition October 2007. A collection of short love stories; the title story is about a young man involved with his brother's widow. Published in English by ComicsOne.
- Yoru wa Kite Ai o Katari
- (November 1993, bunko edition June 2003, new edition October 2007)
- Yūreijuku no Aruji
- Meikyū Seitanjō Ichi
- (June 1994)
- Botan Tōrō
- (July 1995, new edition October 2007)
- Kyōka Mugen
- (November 1995, bunko edition June 2000, new edition October 2007)
- Mizu no Naka no Tsuki
- Meikyū Seitanjō Ni
- (May 1996)
- Kokonotsu no Yoru no Tobira
- (September 1997, new edition October 2007)
- Ikoku no Hanamori
- (September 1997)
- Ikoku no Hanamori
- Hana no Koe
- (March 1999)
- Uruwashi no Eikoku Shirīzu
- (Published in Furawāzu from 2000 to 2007.) A series of short stories with an element of fantasy set in Victorian England and centering on Cornelius Everdeanne, a young, handsome heir to an earldom. Currently available in a wide-ban edition from Shogakukan.
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