is a

Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture ** Japanese diaspor ...

manga artist A is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. As of 2006, about 3,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan. Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist bef ...

most famous for the

boys love ''Yaoi'' (; ja, やおい ), also known by the ''wasei-eigo'' construction and its abbreviation , is a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that features homoerotic relationships between male characters. It is typically created ...

manga ''

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'', which, in addition to the ''Gravitation'' novel, is published in the U.S. by

Tokyopop Tokyopop (styled TOKYOPOP; formerly known as Mixx Entertainment) is an American distributor, licensor and publisher of anime, manga, manhwa and Western manga-style works. The German publishing division produces German translations of licensed ...

Biography

History

She began working as an assistant to the older sister of one of her friends, drawing

hentai Hentai is anime and manga pornography. A loanword from Japanese, the original term ( ) does not describe a genre of media, but rather an abnormal sexual desire or act, as an abbreviation of . In addition to anime and manga, hentai works exi ...

manga, while she was still in high school, and produced many

dojinshi , also romanized as ', is the Japanese term for self-published print works, such as magazines, manga, and novels. Part of a wider category of ''doujin'' (self-published) works, ''doujinshi'' are often derivative of existing works and created by ...

about musicians. Maki Murakami has continued the ''Gravitation'' series with ''Gravitation EX'', which has also been licensed by

. ''Gravitation EX'' only consists of 1 volume in English and the second one is currently being published by Gentosha comics in Japanese. Her work ''

Gamerz Heaven is a manga by Maki Murakami, author of the popular manga Gravitation. Plot The story is about young gamer Kaito Suzuki, who one day discovers a video game Video games, also known as computer games, are electronic games that involves ...

'' was licensed by ADV Films in North America with the first two volumes, but the third and fourth are not yet translated. She is also the creator of Kanpai! which was published by Tokyopop, but only has two volumes and it is unknown if it will eventually be continued by her. She is one of many manga artists who draws her own dōjinshi including ''Gravitation Remix 1-12'', ''Gravitation Megamix EST'', ''Gravitation Megamix Panda'', ''Gravitation Megamix Kumagoro'', ''Gravitation Megamix Capybara'', ''Kanpai! DJ: Unapai'', ''Gamerz Heaven DJ: Director's Cut''. On December 31, 2020, Maki Murakami released a BL hentai dōjinshi manga on the Japanese dōjinshi site DLsite for the first time, under the penname "sin". She since has released multiple works there, including Gravitation dōjinshi ''The Novelist is in a Good Mood Today'', other works such as ''Round Two with my Student'', and multiple work series ''The Hitman's Failure'' and ''The Scary Older Guys are Nice.''

Works

* ''

'' (1996–2002,

Gentosha is a Japanese publisher, headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo. Gentosha publishes manga magazine '' Comic Birz'', Web comic magazines '' GENZO'', ''SPICA'', '' Comic MAGNA'', literary magazines ''Lynx'', ''papyrus'', as well as business magazine ''GOE ...

) * '' Kanpai!'' (2001, Gentosha) * ''

'' (2003–2005, serialized in ''Comic Blade'',

Mag Garden is a Japanese publishing company that focuses on manga-related publications and is also involved in the development of anime and live-action adaptations. It was founded on June 5, 2001 by Yoshihiro Hosaka along with former manga artists of Enix ...

) * ''Gravitation Ex'' (2007–ongoing, Gentosha)

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