Kozue Amano

Kozue Amano (Japanese天野 こずえ, Kozue Amano, born May 26, 1974 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist.

Career

After gaining experience as an amateur dōjinshi comic artist, she took the actual spelling of her name (天野 梢) 1993 part in a talent competition of Enix Publisher. With their manga Earth (アースASU), she won the Big rookie shō, the main prize of this competition. Through this award, she received the opportunity to start a professional career. So Amano published 1994 Zen'yasai (前夜 祭) in the magazine Fresh Gangan its first commercial plant. Since then she has published her works under a slightly different spelling of her name by writing her name in hiragana, their family name but, as usual, with Kanji leaves (天野 こずえ).

This was followed by additional work for Enix. From 1995 to 1998, she brought her around 1,000 -page manga series Roman Club (浪漫 倶 楽 部, novel kurabu ) in Shōnen Gangan magazine out. Then this appeared in six books. This was followed from 1998 to 2001, the series Crescent Noise (クレセント ノイズ, kuresento noizu ) for the magazine G Fantasy; this laid the Enix Publisher after the first publication in the magazine also in six anthologies.

For the Stencil magazine created Amano 2001, playing in the future manga series Aqua about an adolescent who is on a recreated Venice water city Gondlerin. Aqua was successful, but the illustrator ended the series after only about 350 pages, because they wanted to change the publisher.

Under the title Aqua Aria was continued until 2008 when Mag -Garden -Verlag in the Comic Blade magazine. The manga is Amano's most successful and with a circumference of about 2,000 pages and longest work dar. Aria was implemented as an anime television series in three seasons and the anthology publications have in Japan over three million copies. Due to the success of their Aria earlier works were reissued. Since November 2008, followed in the magazine Comic Blade the series Amanchu! (あまんちゅ).

Your comics are translated into Chinese, Korean, English, German, French, Italian and Thai. She has also published four Artbooks: Alpha ( 2004), Stella (2005), Cielo (2006) and Birth ( 2011).