Milk Morizono

Milk Morizono
森園 みるく
BornHiroko Mizoguchi
(1957-12-25) December 25, 1957 (age 66)
Tokuyama, Yamaguchi, Japan
Area(s)Manga artist, photographer
Notable works
Crazy Love Hisshouho
Peacemaker
Spouse(s)
Unnamed husband
(m. 1977; div. 1981)
(died 2010)
http://morizono.babymilk.jp/

Milk Morizono (Japanese: 森園 みるく, Hepburn: Morizono Miruku, born December 25, 1957) is the pen name of Hiroko Mizoguchi (Japanese: 溝口 比呂子, Hepburn: Mizoguchi Hiroko), a Japanese manga artist and photographer. Noted for her works in the ladies' manga genre that feature ecchi themes and subject material, Morizono has been called the "Queen of Ladies' Manga"[1] and noted by Rachel Matt Thorn as "the most popular and respected creator of erotic manga for women".[2]

Biography

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Morizono was born Hiroko Mizoguchi on December 25, 1957, in Tokuyama (now Shūnan), Yamaguchi Prefecture,[3] where she drew manga as a child.[4] In 1977, she married and began work as an office lady, but departed the job after a year.[3] In 1981, she divorced her husband and made her professional debut as a manga artist with Crazy Love Hisshouhou published in the manga magazine Shōjo Comic.[3] She won a Shogakukan Manga Award for new artists that same year.[4]

From 1981 to 1986, Morizono primarily created shōjo manga (girls' comics) and gag cartoons for seinen manga (young men's comics) magazines.[5] As ladies' manga began to incorporate more mature elements such as erotica and S&M in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Morizono began to create manga for the genre exclusively.[4] During this period, she began publishing under the name "Milk" as a pen name that was "catchy and feminine".[5] Between 1986 and 1995, Morizono published over 35 paperbacks[5] and earned the nickname of "the Queen of Ladies' Manga".[1]

In 1991, Morizono published the erotic manga series Peacemaker in Midori, a shōjo manga magazine published by Kodansha.[6] The series received complaints from the police, parent–teacher associations, housewife groups, and politicians, and prompted Kodansha to pressure the editors of Midori to cease publishing works deemed "harmful".[6] Kodansha refused to publish tankōbon volumes of Morizono's manga unless Peacemaker was revised, which Morizono refused; ultimately, neither Morizono nor Kodansha earned royalties from Peacemaker, and the series was not renewed despite its popularity.[7] As a result, Morizono began primarily publishing works through Shodensha, a smaller company that published a tankōbon of Peacemaker in its uncensored form.[7]

Morizono was married to manga artist Hyakurō Murasaki [jp] until his murder in 2010. She published an autobiographical manga on Murasaki's death, My Husband Was Suddenly Killed One Day (私の夫はある日突然殺された), in the digital manga magazine Mecha Comic [jp] in 2017.[1] In addition to her manga work, Morizono also works as a photographer.[8]

Style

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Morizono is known for her "glamorous and media-friendly" public persona[6] and describes her art as etchi, a term broadly used to describe works that are erotic but not explicitly pornographic.[9] Though sex figures heavily into her manga, her works do not render genitalia or pubic hair, and typically feature significant plot and character development in addition to sex scenes.[5] Recurring elements in her work include "wealthy, jet-set young women" who find themselves in a variety of sexual scenarios,[6] foreign settings, and gay characters.[8] Unlike many manga artists who both write and illustrate their manga, Morizono frequently does not write her material, opting to instead work with new and unestablished writers with whom she shares 30 percent of the series' royalties.[8]

Works

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The following works have been published by Morizono:[10]

Year Title Publisher[a]
1981 Crazy Love Hisshouhou Shogakukan (Shōjo Comic)
1983 Katte ni Senka (勝手に専科) Shogakukan (Betsucomi)
1984 Kon'ya mo Sexual (今夜もセクシャル) Shogakukan
1984 Nanika ii Koto shinai? Koneko-chan (なにかいいことしない?仔猫ちゃん) Shogakukan
1988 Abunai Koibitotachi (あぶない恋人たち) Tairiku Shobou
1989 Desire (デザイアー) Shodensha (Feel Young)
1989 Feel So Bad Futabasha
1989 Milky Pink (ミルキィピンク) Tairiku Shobou
1989 All Night Long (オ-ルナイトロング) Tairiku Shobou
1989 Cocktail Stories (カクテル・ストーリーズ) Shodensha (Feel Young)
1989 Milky Pop (ミルキィポップ) Tairiku Shobou
1989 Milky Panic (ミルキィパニック) Tairiku Shobou
1989 Milky Party (ミルキィパ-ティ-) Tairiku Shobou
1989 Milky Passion (ミルキーパッショーン) Tairiku Shobou
1989 Slave to Love (スレーブ・トゥ・ラブ) Shodensha (Feel Young)
1990 Déjà-vu Shodensha (Feel Young)
1990 New York Stories Shodensha (Feel Young)
1990 Venus Party Shodensha (Feel Young)
1990 Hong Kong Yuugi (香港遊戯) Shodensha (Feel Young)
1991 Sabu & June (さぶとJUNE) Futabasha
1991 Crystal Rose (クリスタル・ローズ) Shodensha
1991 Kagami no Tasogare (神々の黄昏) Shodensha (Feel Young)
1991 Lust Shodensha (Feel Young)
1991 Peacemaker Kodansha (Midori)
1992 Hana Kagami (華鏡) Shodensha (Feel Young)
1992 High Life (ハイ・ライフ) Shodensha (Feel Young)
1992 Himiko (ヒミコ) Shodensha (Feel Young)
1992 Kiara (キアラ) Shodensha (Feel Young)
1993 Bondage Fantasy (ボンデージ・ファンタジー, Koufuku o Uru Otoko) Shodensha (Feel Young)
1993 Daisy Blues (デイジー・ブルー) Shodensha (Feel Young)
1993 Partner Shodensha
1994 Soshite Tsutaete, Hibi no Owari ni (そして伝えて、日々の終わりに) Shodensha (Feel Young)
1994 Atlas no Kaze (アトラスの風) Shodensha (Feel Young)
1994 Junkyousha (殉教者) Shodensha (Feel Young)
1994 Let's Go to Bed Shodensha
1994 Midsummer Night (ミッドサマ-・ナイト) Shodensha
1994 Seaside Lovers (シーサイド・ラバーズ) Shodensha (Feel Young)
1995 Lion no Nakaniwa (ライオンの中庭) Futabasha (Jour: Suteki na Shufu-tachi)
1995 Vegetable Love (ベジタブル・ラブ) Shodensha (Feel Young)
1995 Lonely Hearts Club (ロンリ-・ハ-ツ・クラブ) Shodensha (Feel Young)
1995 Velvet (ヴェルヴェット) Shodensha (Feel Young)
1995 Anata no Kiss ga Ichiban Ii (あなたのKISSが一番いい) Shodensha (Feel Young)
1995 Violetta (ヴィオレッタ) Shodensha
1995 Ecstasy (エクスタシー) Shodensha (Feel Young)
1995 Sweet Heart (スイート・ハート) Shodensha (Feel Young)
1995 Pink Connection (PINKコネクション) Shodensha (Feel Young)
1996 Pressure Game (プレッシャーゲーム) Scholar
1996 Body Shooting Scholar
1996 An Angel's Temptation (天使の誘惑) Scholar
1996 Monroe Densetsu (モンロー伝説) Shodensha (Feel Young)
1997 Drag Shodensha (Feel Young)
1998 Platinum Finger (プラチナ・フィンガー) Shodensha (Feel Young)
1998 Saturn Return (悪魔の帰還―サターン・リターン) Ohta Publishing
1999 Melencolia (メランコリア) SoftBank Creative
2001 Cleopatra Koori no Bishou (まんがグリム童話 クレオパトラ氷の女豹) Bunkasha
2002 Atrocious Fairy Tales for Adults (シンデレラ 世界一美しい残酷童話) Futabasha
2006 Ayashii Uzu (妖しい渦) Futabasha
2007 Thérèse (欲望の聖女 令嬢テレジア) Shogakukan (Josei Seven)
2008 Avalon Babies (アヴァロン・ベイビーズ) Bunkasha (Hontou ni Kowai Douwa)
2016 Chimamire no Goo Punch - Bouryoku wo Yamerarenai Onna (血まみれのグーパンチ〜暴力をやめられない女〜) Shogakukan
2017 Shin gokutsuma kaachan dotabata nikki ♪ (新・極妻母ちゃんドタバタ日記♪) Bunkasha
2017 Manga Grimm Douwa - Satsujin Baishunpu (まんがグリム童話 殺人売春婦) Bunkasha
2017 Manga Grimm Douwa - Dorei Bokujou (まんがグリム童話 奴隷牧場) Bunkasha
2017 My Husband Was Suddenly Killed One Day (私の夫はある日突然殺された) Mecha Comics

Notes

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  1. ^ Manga magazine noted in parentheses where relevant.

References

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  1. ^ a b c "マンガ家・森園みるくが激白、"鬼畜ライター"村崎百郎刺殺事件の真実! 憑依、幽体離脱、魔術訓練… 死は予見されていた!?(インタビュー)". Excite News (in Japanese). September 29, 2017. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  2. ^ Thorn, Rachel Matt. "Matt's Shojo Manga Photo Album". matt-thorn.com. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c "Profile". Milky World. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  4. ^ a b c Schodt 1996, pp. 207.
  5. ^ a b c d Schodt 1996, pp. 208.
  6. ^ a b c d Kinsella 2010, pp. 150.
  7. ^ a b Kinsella 2010, pp. 151.
  8. ^ a b c Schodt 1996, pp. 210.
  9. ^ Schodt 1996, pp. 209.
  10. ^ "Works". Milky World. Retrieved February 13, 2020.

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