Junko Mizuno

Junko Mizuno (in Japanese水 野 纯 子, Junko Mizuno, born May 27, 1973 in Itabashi, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator.

Mizuno is known for its character style that combines cute and grotesque and an influence of Osamu Tezuka. Your female characters have disproportionate eyes and minds.

Biography

In her youth, she took a liking to the girls horror manga by Kazuo Umezu. At twelve, she stopped with the drawing and started again only after she saw Sailor Moon. "That was the inspiration for going back to the manga and to change my style completely, so he gave me more fun. I loved this cute and strong girl characters. They were not just drawn that had personality and a strong story and the people were so much pleased with them. " In the following years they created some dōjinshi, amateur comics ( among other things Sailor Moon ), which, however, did not sell or published. Only in 1996 she printed 50 copies of their Dōjinshis MINA animal DX self-published and sold them. Editors of the music magazine H discovered this comic and then placed them on as an illustrator.

The record label Avex Trax gave it the mandate to draw mangas that are established narrative like techno music and should be accompanied by the booklet of music CDs. Mizuno redesigned the drawn for the CD releases comics and brought it again under the title Pure Trance (ピュア·トランス, Pyua Toransu ) in 1998 from the publisher East Press anthology out.

There followed three books that developed on the basis of fairy tales: Cinderalla - chan (シンデラーラ ちゃん, Shinderāra -chan, 1999, Kōshinsha ), Hansel & Gretel (ヘンゼル&グレーテル, Henseru & Gurēteru, 2000, Kōshinsha ) and Ningyohimeden (人鱼 姫 殿, 2001 Bunkasha ). In the manga magazine Comic Beam brought them from 2002 to 2004 the group Fancy Gigolo Peru (ファンシー ジゴロ ▼ ペル, Fanshi Jigoro Peru) out; later, the manga was published in three anthologies in Enterbrain.

In addition to her work as an illustrator and comic artist she has also worked as character designer and produces plastic figures. Her work has been translated into English and French.