Kaoru Mori

Kaoru Mori (Japanese森 薫, Kaoru Mori, born September 18, 1978 in Tokyo Prefecture, Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist.

After she graduated from high school, she drew comics as an amateur for the dōjinshi market. In 2002 she brought out her first professional publication in Comic Beam magazine of Enterbrain, publisher; this was the first episode of their series Emma - A Victorian Love (エマ, Ema). In this series, the title character is a maid in England during the Victorian age. Through the social circumstances the love of the maid is hindered to a nobleman. The manga ended in 2006 after over 1300 pages that were published in ten anthologies.

Emma - A Victorian love was a success for the illustrator. The anthologies sold in Japan over 1.45 million copies and have been in nine languages ​​(Chinese, Korean, English, German, French, Swedish, Italian, Spanish and Finnish) translated. Two anime television series in 26 episodes and two novels emerged based on the comics and Mori was at the 2005 Japan Media Arts Festival, won the award for excellence.

Emma Moris far the longest work. In 2003, at Enterbrain single band Shirley (シャーリー, Shari ). In this manga the everyday life of a young servant girl in the Victorian era is described. 2006 brought Mori in a special magazine Comic Beam of two more chapters with the same servant girl as the main character out. One of the few professional comics illustrator who do not treat the social circumstances (such as the class differences ) in England during the reign of Victoria, was published in 2004 in Comic Beam with the short story Sumire no Hana (すみれ の 花) that Kaoru Mori for a scenario by Satoshi Fukushima graphically designed. This short manga describes two girls in modern Japan, Love developed from their initial friendship itself.

Since 2006, the illustrator working on Emma - Bangaihen (エマ 番 外篇), a follow-up series to Emma, is in the closer look at the minor characters.