Milk Morizono
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Biography
Morizono was born Hiroko Mizoguchi on December 25, 1957, in Tokuyama (now Shūnan), Yamaguchi Prefecture,[3] where she drew manga as a child.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
From 1981 to 1986, Morizono primarily created shōjo manga (girls' comics) and gag cartoons for seinen manga (young men's comics) magazines.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". During this period, she began publishing under the name "Milk" as a pen name that was "catchy and feminine".Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Between 1986 and 1995, Morizono published over 35 paperbacksScript error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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".Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". As a result, Morizono began primarily publishing works through Shodensha, a smaller company that published a tankōbon of Peacemaker in its uncensored form.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Morizono was married to manga artist Template:Ill until his murder in 2010. She published an autobiographical manga on Murasaki's death, Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., in the digital manga magazine Template:Ill in 2017.[1] In addition to her manga work, Morizono also works as a photographer.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Style
Morizono is known for her "glamorous and media-friendly" public personaScript error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and describes her art as etchi, a term broadly used to describe works that are erotic but not explicitly pornographic.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Recurring elements in her work include "wealthy, jet-set young women" who find themselves in a variety of sexual scenarios,Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". foreign settings, and gay characters.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Works
The following works have been published by Morizono:[4]
| Year | Title | PublisherTemplate:Efn |
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| 1981 | Crazy Love Hisshouhou | Shogakukan (Shōjo Comic) |
| 1983 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shogakukan (Betsucomi) |
| 1984 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shogakukan |
| 1984 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shogakukan |
| 1988 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Tairiku Shobou |
| 1989 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1989 | Feel So Bad | Futabasha |
| 1989 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Tairiku Shobou |
| 1989 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Tairiku Shobou |
| 1989 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1989 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Tairiku Shobou |
| 1989 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Tairiku Shobou |
| 1989 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Tairiku Shobou |
| 1989 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Tairiku Shobou |
| 1989 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1990 | Déjà-vu | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1990 | New York Stories | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1990 | Venus Party | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1990 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1991 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Futabasha |
| 1991 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha |
| 1991 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1991 | Lust | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1991 | Peacemaker | Kodansha (Midori) |
| 1992 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1992 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1992 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1992 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1993 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1993 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1993 | Partner | Shodensha |
| 1994 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1994 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1994 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1994 | Let's Go to Bed | Shodensha |
| 1994 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha |
| 1994 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1995 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Futabasha (Jour: Suteki na Shufu-tachi) |
| 1995 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1995 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1995 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1995 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1995 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha |
| 1995 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1995 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1995 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1996 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Scholar |
| 1996 | Body Shooting | Scholar |
| 1996 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Scholar |
| 1996 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1997 | Drag | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1998 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shodensha (Feel Young) |
| 1998 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Ohta Publishing |
| 1999 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | SoftBank Creative |
| 2001 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Bunkasha |
| 2002 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Futabasha |
| 2006 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Futabasha |
| 2007 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shogakukan (Josei Seven) |
| 2008 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Bunkasha (Hontou ni Kowai Douwa) |
| 2016 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Shogakukan |
| 2017 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Bunkasha |
| 2017 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Bunkasha |
| 2017 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Bunkasha |
| 2017 | Script error: No such module "Nihongo". | Mecha Comics |
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