is a female Japanese manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 artist best known for her gothic

Gothic fiction

Gothic fiction, sometimes referred to as Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. Gothicism's origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, subtitled "A Gothic Story"...

 manga such as Earl Cain

Earl Cain

, also known as Count Cain, is a gothic shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Kaori Yuki. Earl Cain consists of five parts or "Series": , , , , and the sequel series ....

, its sequel Godchild, and Angel Sanctuary

Angel Sanctuary

is a shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Kaori Yuki. Originally serialized in Hana to Yume from February 1995 to February 2001, the chapters were collected and published in twenty tankōbon volumes by Hakusensha; the first volume was released in 1997 and the final volume was published in...

. Yuki debuted in 1987 with which ran in the manga anthology Bessatsu Hana to Yume

Bessatsu Hana to Yume

is a Japanese shōjo manga magazine published by Hakusensha.-Background:Bessatsu Hana to Yume is a sister magazine to Hana to Yume. It was launched in July 1977 as a quarterly priced at 300 yen...

published by 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....

. Her work is typically serialized

Serial (literature)

In literature, a serial is a publishing format by which a single large work, most often a work of narrative fiction, is presented in contiguous installments—also known as numbers, parts, or fascicles—either issued as separate publications or appearing in sequential issues of a single periodical...

 in one of Hakusensha's two shōjo manga anthologies, Bessatsu Hana to Yume and 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 2010, Kaori Yuki was one of many manga artists whose work would appear in the new shōjo manga anthology Aria

Aria (magazine)

Aria is a Japanese monthly shōjo manga magazine published by Kodansha. In April 2010 an announcement was made about plans for a new magazine; its first issue was published on July 28, 2010. The magazine is released in size B5 paper...

by the publisher Kodansha

Kodansha

, the largest Japanese publisher, produces the manga magazines Nakayoshi, Afternoon, Evening, and Weekly Shonen Magazine, as well as more literary magazines such as Gunzō, Shūkan Gendai, and the Japanese dictionary Nihongo Daijiten. The company has its headquarters in Bunkyō, Tokyo...

 on July 28, 2010.

Manga

(1987)

• When a Heart Beats (1987)
• Devil Inside (1988)
  • 
    (1992, Hana to Yume Comics, Hakusensha, ISBN 4-592-12597-5; English translation, 2006)
  • 
    (1993, Hana to Yume Comics, Hakusensha, ISBN 4-592-12642-4; English translation, 2006)
  • 
    (1994, Hana to Yume Comics, Hakusensha, ISBN 4-592-12659-9; English translation, 2007)
  • 
    (1994, Hana to Yume Comics, Hakusensha, 2 volumes (vol.1: ISBN 4592122348, vol.2: ISBN 4592122356); English translation, 2007)
    (1992–1993, 2001, Hana to Yume Comics, Hakusensha, ISBN 4-592-17784-3)
    (1993, Hana to Yume Comics, Hakusensha, ISBN 4-592-12624-6)
    (1993, Hana to Yume Comics, Hakusensha, ISBN 4-592-12612-2）
    (1994–2000, Hana to Yume Comics, Hakusensha, 20 volumes; English translation, 2004)
• Kaine (1996)
  (1997, Hana to Yume Comics, Hakusensha, ISBN 4-592-12497-9)
  (2001–2003, Hana to Yume Comics, Hakusensha, 8 volumes; English translation, 2005)
  (2003–2004, Hana to Yume Comics, Hakusensha, ISBN 4-592-18881-0)
  (2004–2005, Hana to Yume Comics, Hakusensha, ISBN 4592187644; English translation)
  (2004–2007, Hana to Yume Comics, Hakusensha, 4 volumes)
  (2005–2006, Hana to Yume Comics, Hakusensha, 3 volumes; English translation, 2008)
  • Psycho Knocker (2004, one-shot in Fairy Cube
    Fairy Cube
    is a fantasy gothic shōjo manga written and illustrated by Kaori Yuki. Appearing as a serial in the Japanese manga magazine Hana to Yume from 2005 to 2006, the Fairy Cube chapters were collected into three tankōbon volumes by Hakusensha and published from October 2005 to July 2006. Yuki began Fairy...
    
    #3)
    (2008, Bessatsu Hana to Yume, Hakusensha, one-shot)
    (2008–2010, Hana to Yume Comics, Hakusensha, 5 volumes; English translation, 2010)
    (2010-, Aria, Kodansha, 2 volumes as of July 2011,)

Art books

• The Art of Angel Sanctuary: Angel Cage, 1997, Hakusensha, ISBN 4-592-73144-1; English translation, 2005
• The Art of Angel Sanctuary II: Lost Angel, 2000, Hakusensha, ISBN 4-592-73174-3; English translation, 2007

Postcard books

• Card Gallery, 1995, Hakusensha, ISBN 978-4-592-72032-4 (4-592-72032-6)
• Angel Sanctuary Postcard Book: Angelic Voice, 1999, Hakusensha, ISBN 4-592-73159-X

External links

• UnDERGARDEN - Kaori Yuki's homepage
• Hakusensha's Comicate Interview with Kaori Yuki