Est Em Explained

Est Em
Birth Name:	Maki Satoh
Birth Place:	Tokyo, Japan^[1]
Nationality:	Japanese
Known For:	Yaoi
Occupation:	Manga artist
Website:	est em's official site est em's blog

is the pen name of Maki Satoh,^[2] a Japanese manga artist.

Career

She made her debut as a professional manga artist with three yaoi collections after being scouted in art school. She was a student of Rachel Thorn, who provided translations for some of the English licenses of her work.^[3] Her work has been praised as having unusual maturity and depth, both for yaoi and for manga in general. She is currently working on non-yaoi manga.

Two of her first manga have been released in English by Aurora Publishing, which is a direct subsidiary of the Japanese publishing company Ohzora Shuppan,^[4] the original publishers of one of the works in question. A third has been licensed by Net Comics. In addition, her work Tableau Numbero 20, has been released by the Viz Media imprint Sublime.

Bibliography

• , 2006, published by Tokyou Mangasha

Licensed in English as Seduce Me After the Show by Deux Press and subsequently by Digital Manga (Digital Manga Guild)

• Tableau No. 20, 2007–2009, published by Be x Boy Gold^[5]
• , 2008, published by Tokyou Mangasha

Licensed in English as Age Called Blue by Net Comics

• , 2008, published by Ohzora Shuppan

Licensed in English as Red Blinds the Foolish by Deux Press

• , 2008, published by Tokyo Mangasha

Licensed in English by Digital Manga (Digital Manga Guild)

• , 2008, published by Tokyo Mangasha

Licensed in English by Digital Manga (Digital Manga Guild)

• , 2010–2011, published by Kurofune Zero
• Equus, 2010–2011
• , 2011–2014, published by Shogakukan^[6]
• Ii ne! Hikaru Genji-kun (いいね!光源氏くん), 2015–2021, published by Shodensha in Feel Young

Notes and References

1. Web site: Allen. Jocelyne. 7 May 2014. An Interview with Est Em . 2021-02-21. The Comics Journal. en-US.
2. Web site: Matt Thorn Returns to Translation. Alverson. Brigid. 2009-02-17 . Publishers Weekly. 2009-07-27.
3. Web site: Red Blinds the Foolish. Thorn. Matt. August 18, 2008. matt-thorn.com. 2009-07-27. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20080823052239/http://matt-thorn.com/wordpress/?p=107. August 23, 2008.
4. Web site: Company Profile. n.d.. Aurora Publishing. 2009-07-27. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120712201040/http://www.aurora-publishing.com/company.aspx. 2012-07-12.
5. Web site: Allen. Jocelyne. 7 May 2014. An Interview with Est Em . 2021-02-21. The Comics Journal. en-US.
6. Web site: Manga Artist est em Starts Golondrina Bullfighting Manga (Updated). 2021-02-21. Anime News Network. en.