Mari Okazaki

Okazaki worked occasionally for seinen magazines. From 2014 to 2021, her first longer series for a seinen magazine was published in Monthly Big Comic Spirits, the historical manga A-un. The series is her most critically acclaimed work so far. It was commended by manga authors Ryoko Yamagishi, Yuki Suetsugu and Masami Yuki and writers Rio Shimamoto and Kazuki Kaneshiro. A-un was one of the Jury Recommended Works at the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival in 2020.

Her career as a manga artist became more successful in 1994, when she won a newcomers' award of Bouquet magazine, published the short story "Bathroom Gūwa" and started becoming a regular contributor for the magazine afterwards. Okazaki herself considers this to be her proper debut as a professional manga artist. She was a regular contributor for Cookie from its first issue, the successor to Bouquet. She continued working in advertising until 2001, when she decided to completely focus on her career as a manga artist. Her first longer series was Suppli, which she published from 2003 to 2009 in the josei magazine Feel Young and which is set in an advertising company. While working on Suppli, she gave birth to three children.

Mari Okazaki (おかざき 真里, Okazaki Mari, born June 15, 1967 in Nagano, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist.