KYOKO OKAZAKI

Pink is a manga about a Japanese girl named Yumi, a beautiful girl in her early 20s. During the day, Yumi works as a regular office lady, but by night, she works as a prostitute. Yumi needs her two jobs to make ends meet. She also needs the extra income to feed her unusual pet, a crocodile, which she keeps in her apartment. Working in an office is quite normal for young Japanese women, but keeping a pet crocodile, and being a prostitute makes Yumi stand out. In truth, few girls are like Yumi, however, many readers can empathize with her. Young women love their "something," symbolized by her pet crocodile, and they can also identify with Yumi's "wild at heart" nature.

The story takes place in the 80's. Kaneda Sakae, a high school girl living in Sapporo, suddenly moves to Tokyo with her mother...

We begin the story as Rock has left her husband, Astro, and their children and wants a divorce because Astro has cheated on Rock (again). As the five year old twins, Rockette and Astro Junior, find pictures of their parents when they were young, we flash back to the ever so popular romcom scenario of when Rock met Astro... except it's Kyoko Okazaki so it's messy, it's kooky, it's funny and it's all in a way that's unique to Kyoko Okazaki.Between romantic comedy and hallucinated fairy tail, Kyoko Okazaki blows a wind of hysteria in the fashion world and it's nights saturated with music and drugs.

After his live-in girlfriend breaks up with him, Santa Hayashiya runs away from his apartment at night because he can no longer afford the rent. A classmate, Junko Sakurada, invites him to move in with her and her brother, but the relationship between the Sakurada siblings seems... strange. A story of yearning, a story of people that want to love and be loved.

A collection of short stories by Kyoko Okazaki published in the 1990s. The title story, 'Chiwawa-chan,' follows the friends of Chiwawa, a girl found dead in Tokyo Bay, who come to realize they do not know anything about her such as her real name or her background.These stories were published irregularly from the June 1994 issue to the May 1995 issue of 'Monthly YOUNG ROSE,' and some were also featured in the October 1994 special issue of 'FEEL.' Furthermore, this collection includes material that were drawn specifically for the Young Rose Comics Deluxe edition of 'Chiwawa-chan.'

In addition to the title story about boy and a girl who kill their parents and roam the American Midwest, the collection includes five short stories: "VAMPS," Okazaki's version of a vampire tale; "Sunflowers," a summer vacation nightmare experienced by an elementary school student; "Little Sun in the Water," a coming-of-age story of bankruptcy; and "Otome-chan," a family story about a father with eccentric tastes. A collection of masterpieces by Okazaki Kyouko!