is a Japanese manga artist

Mangaka

is the Japanese word for a comic artist or cartoonist. Outside of Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese...

 born in Fukuoka Prefecture

Fukuoka Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located on Kyūshū Island. The capital is the city of Fukuoka.- History :Fukuoka Prefecture includes the former provinces of Chikugo, Chikuzen, and Buzen....

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Her first series, Akuma to Dolce is on hiatus, but ran in Hakusensha

Hakusensha

is a Japanese publishing company. It is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo.The company mainly publishes manga magazines of various genres and is involved in certain series' productions in their games, original video animation, musical and their animated TV series....

's Hana to Yume

Hana to Yume

is a semi-monthly Japanese shōjo manga magazine published by Hakusensha.The magazine is published on the 4th and 22nd of every month. It is often nicknamed as among the readers...

, while her third and current series, Kamisama Kiss is currently serialed in the same magazine.

Personal

Julietta Suzuki is born on December 6 in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.
Her pen name comes from a character named Julietta Sakamoto from the seinen

Seinen

is a subset of manga that is generally targeted at a 20–30 year old male audience, but the audience can be older with some manga aimed at businessmen well into their 40s. In Japanese, the word Seinen means "young man" or "young men" and is not suggestive of sexual matters...

 manga series, Air Master

Air Master

is a seinen manga created by Yokusaru Shibata and serialized in Hakusensha's Young Animal. The story focuses on Maki Aikawa, an ex-gymnast turned street fighter. A 27-episode anime adaptation was produced by Toei Animation. The manga ended in 2006 after a 28 volume run.Geneon had signed an...

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She likes cats, koalas and sharks. According to an interview with Hakusensha, she first started drawing when she was in her second year of elementary school in a sketchbook of Japonica.

During her free time, she meets with her friends, goes for a drink or out for food. She states that she doesn't read much but she enjoys works by Junji Itō

Junji Ito

is a Japanese horror manga artist best known for his series of short stories about Tomie, an immortal girl who drives her stricken admirers to madness, and Uzumaki, a three-volume series about a town obsessed with spirals.-Biography:...

. Her favourite character is Ashia and mentions that male characters are easier to draw in general.

Career

Julietta Suzuki first made her debut by submitting her work, to Hakusensha's 44th Big Challenge. Her one-shot was later short listed and published in the first August issue of Hana to Yume

Hana to Yume

is a semi-monthly Japanese shōjo manga magazine published by Hakusensha.The magazine is published on the 4th and 22nd of every month. It is often nicknamed as among the readers...

 in 2004. Her second one-shot, was again submitted, but to the Hana to Yume Mangaka Course which had her won the Great Effort Award. The one-shot was then serialized in Hana to Yume's 16th issue.

Suzuki then wrote another one-shot, and it was published in Hana to Yume's special publication, Hana to Yume Plus which was released on September 15, 2004. In the November issue of Bessatsu Hana to Yume, she had another one-shot, . was her last one-shot for that year. It appeared in the 24th issue of Hana to Yume.

In 2005, she had another oneshot, , in the January issue of Bessatsu Hana to Yume. She then published in Hana to Yume's February issue. In April, was also published in the same magazine. Then in June, her first series titled began to serialize in Hana to Yume. Shortly after Akuma to Dolce, Suzuki started another series, in Hana to Yume.

In 2007, she published another one-shot, for the 14th issue of Hana to Yume. In its January 2008 issue, Karakuri Odette had finally ended its serialization with 35 chapters, compiled into 6 volumes. Not long after Karakuri Odette ended, she started another series, (called Kamisama Kiss in Viz's English version), in the same magazine.

She attended her first signing event in Animate

Animate

is the retailing arm of MOVIC and is the largest retailer of anime, games, and manga in Japan. The first and headquarters store of Animate opened in 1983 and is located in Ikebukuro, a district in Tokyo, Japan. Currently, there are 38 Animate stores in Japan, and two in Taipei, Taiwan...

 located at Takashima, Nishi-ku

Nishi-ku, Yokohama

is one of the 18 wards of the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the ward had an estimated population of 93,027 and a density of 13,210 persons per km². The total area was 7.04 km².-Geography:...

, Yokohama

Yokohama

is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu...

, Kanagawa Prefecture

Kanagawa Prefecture

is a prefecture located in the southern Kantō region of Japan. The capital is Yokohama. Kanagawa is part of the Greater Tokyo Area.-History:The prefecture has some archaeological sites going back to the Jōmon period...

 on May 24, 2009.

As of November 2009, she is currently working on Kami-sama Kiss, and Akuma to Dolce is on hiatus.

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One-shots

• Hoshi ni Naru Hi
• My Precious
• Ogami-ya Uradaichō
• My Bloody Life
• Tsubaki Ori
• Sakurachiru
• Katakoi Akuma-chan

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Series

• Akuma to Dolce
• Karakuri Odette
  Karakuri Odette
  is a shōjo manga by Julietta Suzuki that was serialized in the bi-weekly Japanese shojo manga anthology Hana to Yume. Though Karakuri Odette is actually Suzuki's second series, it was awarded the "Outstand Debut" award in the 31st Hakusensha Athena Newcomers' Awards. The series's 35 chapters were...
  
  
• Kamisama Kiss

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Both Kamisama Kiss and Karakuri Odette are licensed for English release, the first by Viz Media

VIZ Media

VIZ Media, LLC, headquartered in San Francisco, is an anime, manga, and Japanese entertainment company. It was founded in 1986 as VIZ LLC. In 2005, VIZ LLC and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current VIZ Media LLC, which is jointly owned by Japanese publishers Shogakukan and Shueisha, and...

 and the second by Tokyopop

Tokyopop

Tokyopop, styled TOKYOPOP, and formerly known as Mixx, is a distributor, licensor, and publisher of anime, manga, manhwa, and Western manga-style works. The existing German publishing division produces German translations of licensed Japanese properties and original English-language manga, as well...

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Awards

• Great Effort - 338th Hana to Yume Mangaka Course for her second sent-in work, Asa ga Kuru.
• Outstanding Debut - 31st Hakusensha Athena Newcomers’ Awards for her second series, Karakuri Odette.