Milk Morizono Explained

Name Nonen:	森園 みるく
Nonus:	ja
Birth Name:	Hiroko Mizoguchi
Birth Date:	25 December 1957
Birth Place:	Tokuyama, Yamaguchi, Japan
Area:	Manga artist, photographer
Notable Works:	Crazy Love Hisshouho Peacemaker
Spouse:
Website:	http://morizono.babymilk.jp/

is the pen name of, a Japanese manga artist and photographer. Noted for her works in the ladies' manga genre that feature ecchi themes and subject material, Morizono has been called the "Queen of Ladies' Manga" and noted by Rachel Matt Thorn as "the most popular and respected creator of erotic manga for women".

Biography

Morizono was born Hiroko Mizoguchi on December 25, 1957, in Tokuyama (now Shūnan), Yamaguchi Prefecture, where she drew manga as a child. In 1977, she married and began work as an office lady, but departed the job after a year. In 1981, she divorced her husband and made her professional debut as a manga artist with Crazy Love Hisshouhou published in the manga magazine Shōjo Comic. She won a Shogakukan Manga Award for new artists that same year.

From 1981 to 1986, Morizono primarily created shōjo manga (girls' comics) and gag cartoons for seinen manga (young men's comics) magazines. As ladies' manga began to incorporate more mature elements such as erotica and S&M in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Morizono began to create manga for the genre exclusively. During this period, she began publishing under the name "Milk" as a pen name that was "catchy and feminine". Between 1986 and 1995, Morizono published over 35 paperbacks and earned the nickname of "the Queen of Ladies' Manga".

In 1991, Morizono published the erotic manga series Peacemaker in Midori, a shōjo manga magazine published by Kodansha. The series received complaints from the police, parent–teacher associations, housewife groups, and politicians, and prompted Kodansha to pressure the editors of Midori to cease publishing works deemed "harmful". Kodansha refused to publish tankōbon volumes of Morizono's manga unless Peacemaker was revised, which Morizono refused; ultimately, neither Morizono nor Kodansha earned royalties from Peacemaker, and the series was not renewed despite its popularity. As a result, Morizono began primarily publishing works through Shodensha, a smaller company that published a tankōbon of Peacemaker in its uncensored form.

Morizono was married to manga artist until his murder in 2010. She published an autobiographical manga on Murasaki's death,, in the digital manga magazine in 2017. In addition to her manga work, Morizono also works as a photographer.

Style

Morizono is known for her "glamorous and media-friendly" public persona and describes her art as etchi, a term broadly used to describe works that are erotic but not explicitly pornographic. Though sex figures heavily into her manga, her works do not render genitalia or pubic hair, and typically feature significant plot and character development in addition to sex scenes. Recurring elements in her work include "wealthy, jet-set young women" who find themselves in a variety of sexual scenarios, foreign settings, and gay characters. Unlike many manga artists who both write and illustrate their manga, Morizono frequently does not write her material, opting to instead work with new and unestablished writers with whom she shares 30 percent of the series' royalties.

Works

The following works have been published by Morizono:

Year	Title	Publisher
scope=row	1981	Crazy Love Hisshouhou	Shogakukan (Shōjo Comic)
scope=row	1983		Shogakukan (Betsucomi)
scope=row	1984		Shogakukan
scope=row	1984		Shogakukan
scope=row	1988		Tairiku Shobou
scope=row	1989		Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1989	Feel So Bad	Futabasha
scope=row	1989		Tairiku Shobou
scope=row	1989		Tairiku Shobou
scope=row	1989		Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1989		Tairiku Shobou
scope=row	1989		Tairiku Shobou
scope=row	1989		Tairiku Shobou
scope=row	1989		Tairiku Shobou
scope=row	1989		Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1990	Déjà-vu	Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1990	New York Stories	Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1990	Venus Party	Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1990		Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1991		Futabasha
scope=row	1991		Shodensha
scope=row	1991		Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1991	Lust	Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1991	Peacemaker	Kodansha (Midori)
scope=row	1992		Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1992		Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1992		Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1992		Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1993		Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1993		Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1993	Partner	Shodensha
scope=row	1994		Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1994		Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1994		Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1994	Let's Go to Bed	Shodensha
scope=row	1994		Shodensha
scope=row	1994		Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1995		Futabasha (Jour: Suteki na Shufu-tachi)
scope=row	1995		Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1995		Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1995		Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1995		Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1995		Shodensha
scope=row	1995		Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1995		Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1995		Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1996		Scholar
scope=row	1996	Body Shooting	Scholar
scope=row	1996		Scholar
scope=row	1996		Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1997	Drag	Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1998		Shodensha (Feel Young)
scope=row	1998		Ohta Publishing
scope=row	1999		SoftBank Creative
scope=row	2001		Bunkasha
scope=row	2002		Futabasha
scope=row	2006		Futabasha
scope=row	2007		Shogakukan (Josei Seven)
scope=row	2008		Bunkasha (Hontou ni Kowai Douwa)
scope=row	2016		Shogakukan
scope=row	2017		Bunkasha
scope=row	2017		Bunkasha
scope=row	2017		Bunkasha
scope=row	2017		Mecha Comics

Bibliography

• Book: Kinsella, Sharon . Adult Manga : Culture and Power in Contemporary Japanese Society . 2010 . . 978-0824823184 . 150–151 .
• Book: Schodt . Frederik L. . Frederik L. Schodt . . 1996 . Stone Bridge Press . 978-1933330952 . 207–212 .

External links

• Official website