| Name Nonen: | おかざき 真里 |
| Nonus: | ja |
| Birth Date: | 15 June 1967 |
| Birth Place: | Nagano, Japan |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
| Area: | Manga artist |
| Manga: | Yes |
is a Japanese manga artist.[1]
Okazaki started drawing in high school and submitted her illustrations to different magazines. For her, this was both a training for art school, which she wanted to apply for, and a way to make money from the prize money. She had saved more than 1 million yen when graduating from high school. The magazine Fanroad by the publisher Rapport published her first manga. She enrolled in and graduated from Tama Art University with a major in design. After university, she worked for the advertising company Hakuhodo, doing conceptual and design work.[2]
Her career as a manga artist became more successful in 1994, when she won a newcomers' award of Bouquet magazine, published the short story "Bathroom Gūwa" and started becoming a regular contributor for the magazine afterwards. Okazaki herself considers this to be her proper debut as a professional manga artist. She was a regular contributor for