is a Japanese

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. She's most famous for two of her works:

Matantei Loki Ragnarok is a manga by Sakura Kinoshita published from August 1999 to October 2004. A television anime based on the manga series ran for 26 episodes from April 5, 2003, to September 27, 2003, in Japan. The series originally ran in the magazine ''M ...

and

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(with Kazuko Higashiyama).

Biography

Kinoshita wrote ''

The Mythical Detective Loki is a manga by Sakura Kinoshita published from August 1999 to October 2004. A television anime based on the manga series ran for 26 episodes from April 5, 2003, to September 27, 2003, in Japan. The series originally ran in the magazine ''M ...

'', a story about the titular Norse god of mischief who was exiled to Earth and runs a paranormal detective agency to collect evil auras that have taken over human hearts. The manga series ran in the magazine ''

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'' from August 1999 to October 2004, and was collected in 7 tankōbon volumes by Gangan Comics. It was also adopted into an anime television series that ran in 2003. ''Loki'' was later purchased by publishing company

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 ...

and moved to ''

Comic Blade was a Japanese shōnen manga magazine published by Mag Garden. It was first published in February 2002 and was sold on the 30 of each month until July 2014. It restarted in September 2014 as a free online magazine titled ''Online Magazine Comic B ...

'' magazine, where Kinoshita wrote five more volumes under the name ''The Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok''. Kinoshita's other major work was with Kazuko Higashiyama on the manga series ''

'', which follows the adventures of a boy who is able to see youkai and mythical beasts, and who goes on a mission to find and master an

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-eating

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. The manga was serialized in ''

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'', and later ''

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'' and ''

Monthly GFantasy is a manga imprint owned by Square Enix Holdings. It originated as a manga imprint for Enix before the company re-branded as Square Enix. It publishes manga in several anthologies aimed at different reader demographic groups in the Japanese mar ...

'', running from 2001 to 2013, and was published by Mag Garden in 15 volumes. It was also adapted into an anime series.

Works

References

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