Sakura Kinoshita

Sakura Kinoshita (Japanese木下 さくら, Kinoshita Sakura, born September 8 ) is a Japanese mangaka and illustrator.

Career

Kinoshita was published in 1999 with Detective Loki in the magazine Shōnen Gangan from the publisher Square Enix her first series. In this she describes how the Norse god Loki is banished for a joke on the earth in the body of a child and may only return to the realm of the gods, as soon as he can drive evil from the hearts of the people. In 2001, she broke off the series after seven published anthologies, in order to change how many other artists of Square Enix publishing ( including Kozue Amano and Nanae Chrono ) to Mag Garden. For the Mag Garden Comic Blade magazine she works since then. First she created with Detective Loki Ragnarok to 2004 a sequel around Loki, at the same time they started with tactics but also a second series, where they worked in parallel together with the mangaka Kazuko Higashiyama. Again form figures of mythology the frame, this time the Japanese Yōkai: The human protagonist with the ability to see supernatural creatures, dissolves in the Taishō period, together with a Tengu problems with ghosts and demons.

Both Detective Loki and tactics were successful. They were translated into several languages ​​- including by Carlsen Verlag ( Detective Loki and tactics ) and TOKYOPOP (Alice in Wonderland ) into German - and both filmed by Studio DEEN as an anime television series: Detective Loki 2003 and tactics in 2004.

Kinoshita is also valued as an illustrator. She has published since 2003, five Artbooks and 2006, a picture book based on Lewis Carroll's children's book Alice in Wonderland.

Works (selection)

• Detective Loki (魔 探偵 ロキMatantei Roki ), 1999-2001
• Detective Loki Ragnarok (魔 探偵 ロキMatantei Roki RAGNAROK Ragnarok ), 2002-2004
• Tactics, since 2002
• Alice in Wonderland (Alice in Wonderland. Picture Book ), 2006
• Akuma no Tsukurikata (悪魔 の つくりかた), since 2010