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best known for the '' I Love You, My Teacher'' and '' Blue Box'' manga series. She won a special honorable mention for new artists at the 90th Weekly Shōnen Magazine Awards in 2013, and a second honorable mention at the 91st Weekly Shōnen Magazine Awards that same year. In 2017, her one-shot of '' I Love You, My Teacher'' won the '' Magazine Pocket'' One-Shot award. Her one-shot ''Parasol Alliance'' won the Garyokin Pro Drawing King Award in 2019, and ''Blue Box'' won the Global Prize at the 2021 Next Manga Awards. She has used Satoshi Yūki and Amami as pseudonyms during her manga career.

Biography

Kouji Miura was born on 28 March 1995. She graduated from the Department of Arts and Culture at Musashino Art University. Her debut work was the one-shot manga under the pseudonym . It won a Newcomers Special Honorable Mention at the 90th Weekly Shōnen Magazine Awards. Her second one-shot manga, ''thirst'', won an Honorable Mention at the 91st Weekly Shōnen Magazine Awards. It was subsequently released in the January 2014 issue of ''

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''. Her first serialized story, , ran from 2015 to 2016 on the mobile manga app ''

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''. A one-shot version of '' I Love You, My Teacher'' won a contest on the '' Magazine Pocket'' web comics site, where it was published on January 25, 2017. It was subsequently published in the print manga magazine ''

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'' in 2017 issue 25 where it was popular with readers, who called it "cute and erotic". Because of that positive reader response, ''Teacher'' was serialized from issue 4/5 to issue 28 of ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine''. It moved to ''Magazine Pocket'' beginning 4 July 2018 before finishing its run on 29 August with a total of 33 chapters. Miura received the Drawing King Gold Award from Shueisha for the one-shot ''Parasol Alliance'', which was published in the Spring 2020 issue of ''

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''. The romantic comedy '' Blue Box'' began serialization in issue 2021 #19 of '' Weekly Shōnen Jump'', where it is currently running. It won the Global Prize at the 2021 Next Manga Awards, where it also placed 8th overall in the Best Print Manga category. Viz Media is releasing the series in print and digitally English in North America.

Bibliography

Works are listed in order of publication. * (one-shot under Satoshi Yūki, won a Newcomers Special Honorable Mention at the 90th Weekly Shōnen Magazine Awards) *''thirst'' (one-shot under Yūki Satoshi, won an Honorable Mention at the 91st Weekly Shōnen Magazine Awards) * (2015–2016, first serialized story, 2 volumes, ''

'') * (2017–2018, 4 volumes, ''

'' and the '' Magazine Pocket'' website) * (one-shot, 2019 #52 issue of ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'') * (one-shot under the pseudonym , spring 2020 issue of ''

'') *'' Blue Box'' (2021–present, '' Weekly Shōnen Jump'')

Reception

Readers of the 2017 one-shot of '' I Love You, My Teacher'' described the work as "cute and erotic", and it was popular enough that it begin serialization in ''

'' in 2018. Comic Book Resources described Miura's art work on '' Blue Box'' as "beautifully drawn, at times resembling a shojo manga more than a typical shonen anga. '' The Daily Star'' praised her use of romantic tropes in ''Blue Box''—stating she handled them "in a more realistic and grounded way" than many other series—and her "clean and realistic art style" and "careful accuracy and attention-to-detail". However, they criticized how she handled the secondary sports, stating they "aren't nearly as fleshed out".

Awards and recognition

Miura has received the following accolades and recognition:

References

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