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...

. Kodaka made her debut in 1989 in the magazine Weekly Shōnen Champion

Weekly Shonen Champion

is a weekly shōnen manga magazine published by Akita Shoten.- History :Shōnen Champion was first published 15 July 1969. It has had numerous popular series by manga artists such as Osamu Tezuka, Go Nagai, Shinji Mizushima, and Keisuke Itagaki...

with Sessa Takuma!. She mainly writes manga in the Boys Love genre, featuring homosexual relationships between men for women, and has been described as "a pioneer and top-ranked artist" in the genre. She decided to enter the Boys Love genre as a result of reading parody manga with yaoi

Yaoi

In careful Japanese enunciation, all three vowels are pronounced separately, for a three-mora word, . The English equivalent is . also known as Boys' Love, is a Japanese popular term for female-oriented fictional media that focus on homoerotic or homoromantic male relationships, usually created by...

 themes, finding them "more interesting" than regular shōjo manga and more psychologically complex than shōnen manga. She has also written many parody manga

Dojinshi

is the Japanese term for self-published works, usually magazines, manga or novels. Dōjinshi are often the work of amateurs, though some professional artists participate as a way to publish material outside the regular industry. The term dōjinshi is derived from and . Dōjinshi are part of a wider...

 which are famous, but difficult to obtain, from the series Prince of Tennis, Fullmetal Alchemist

Fullmetal Alchemist

, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa. The world of Fullmetal Alchemist is styled after the European Industrial Revolution...

, Hikaru no Go

Hikaru no Go

is a manga series, a coming of age story based on the board game Go written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata with an anime adaptation. The production of the series' Go games was supervised by Go professional Yukari Umezawa...

, Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo

Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo

is an anime series loosely based on Alexandre Dumas, père's classic French novel, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo. Spanning 24 episodes, it was produced by Gonzo, directed by Mahiro Maeda and broadcast by Animax across its respective networks in Japan, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Latin America,...

and Slam Dunk

Slam dunk

A slam dunk is a type of basketball shot that is performed when a player jumps in the air and manually powers the ball downward through the basket with one or both hands over the rim. This is considered a normal field goal attempt; if successful it is worth two points. The term "slam dunk" was...

. She designed the characters for the My Sexual Harassment

My Sexual Harassment

is a professional work, novel by Momo Sakura and anime, anime available in English, with character designs by Kazuma Kodaka. The critic Charles Solomon described it, "depicts the rise of a young executive who prostitutes himself to his corporate superiors...

OVA. She taught herself how to draw, but one of her design influences is Rumiko Takahashi

Rumiko Takahashi

is a Japanese manga artist.Takahashi is one of the wealthiest individuals, and the most affluent manga artists in Japan. The manga she creates are popular worldwide, where they have been translated into a variety of languages...

. She draws by hand, not using computers, and learned shōjo manga techniques from Sanami Matoh

Sanami Matoh

is a popular manga artist and writer. Hugely popular in Japan, especially among teenage girls. Matoh debuted as a manga artist in 1990 with Next to an Angel published by Akita Shoten. Her other works include -Fake-, By the Sword, and Black x Blood. She has also written quite a few dōjinshi, mostly...

, author of Fake.

Works

• Border
• Ren ai Hōteishiki
• Kizuna: Bonds of Love
  Kizuna: Bonds of Love
  is a yaoi manga, authored by Kazuma Kodaka. Released in 1994 and ending with the release of the final volume in 2008, it was one of the first and most popular manga to feature a homosexual relationship....
  
  
• Hana to Ryū
  Hana to Ryu
  is a yaoi manga series created by Kazuma Kodaka in 1993. Designed as a doujinshi, Hana to Ryū follows Ryūji Kazama, the son of a dead yakuza boss, as he struggles to maintain a peaceful existence while dealing with harmful forces all around him...
  
  
• Sessa Takuma
  Sessa Takuma
  Sessa Takuma! is a manga series created by Kazuma Kodaka. Originally published in 1989 in Weekly Shōnen Champion, it later was published as a single volume in 1993 by Biblos. This short series is most often cited as Kodaka's breakout series, later spawning its better known and more popular spin-off...
  
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• Kimera
• Kusatta Kyōshi no Hōteishiki
• Sebiro no Housekeeper
• Boku No Sexual Harassment
• Sex Therapist
• Mezase Hero!
• Not Ready?! Sensei
• Midare Somenishi
• Ihōjin Etranger

External links

• Official site (Japanese)
• B-Boy's profile of Kazuma Kodaka (Japanese)