Est em
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is the pen name of Maki Satoh, a Japanese manga artist
who debuted with three yaoi
collections after being scouted in art school. She was a student of Matt Thorn
, who provided translations for some of the English licenses of her work. 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, the original publishers of one of the works in question. A third has been licensed by Net Comics
.
centers on the artistic worlds of dance, art and music, while Red Blinds the Foolish
contains five short stories that are either set in Spain
or have Spanish characters.
Another common trait is that her stories tend to depict sets of strong dichotomies between contrasting themes, ideals, cultures, artistic styles, and personalities that are all embedded in the intense and passionate relationships between her characters and in her artwork, which is distinctive as it makes use of simple lines and negative space.
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...
who debuted with three 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...
collections after being scouted in art school. She was a student of Matt Thorn
Matt Thorn
Matt Thorn is a cultural anthropologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Manga Production at Kyoto Seika University's Faculty of Manga in Japan. He is most well known in North America for his work dealing with shōjo manga. He has appeared at multiple anime conventions, including...
, who provided translations for some of the English licenses of her work. 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
Aurora Publishing
Aurora Publishing, Inc. is the American subsidiary of Japanese publisher Ohzora Publishing, the leading josei manga publisher in Japan. Headquartered in Torrance, California, it licensed and published Japanese manga for the North American market...
, which is a direct subsidiary of the Japanese publishing company Ohzora Shuppan, the original publishers of one of the works in question. A third has been licensed by Net Comics
Net Comics
Netcomics is a distributor of manhwa and manga in the United States, based in Glendale, California. It was established in 2005 by South Korean publisher Ecomix Media Company....
.
Style
est em's works tend to have a strong common theme connecting the stories in each of her collections. Seduce Me After the ShowSeduce Me After the Show
Seduce Me After the Show is a Boys' Love manga by est em released in English by Aurora Publishing in April 2008. It was released in French as Tango by Editions H. Seduce Me After the Show contains five short stories set in the artistic worlds of dance, painting, and music...
centers on the artistic worlds of dance, art and music, while Red Blinds the Foolish
Red Blinds the Foolish
is a Japanese yaoi manga written and illustrated by est em. Initially serialized in Mellow Mellow, the individual chapters were published in a single tankōbon volume by Ohzora Publishing in January 2008...
contains five short stories that are either set in Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
or have Spanish characters.
Another common trait is that her stories tend to depict sets of strong dichotomies between contrasting themes, ideals, cultures, artistic styles, and personalities that are all embedded in the intense and passionate relationships between her characters and in her artwork, which is distinctive as it makes use of simple lines and negative space.