is a Japanese manga artist born in "Adachi, Tokyo". Her real name has the same pronunciation but is spelled 松崎明美, this spelling is mostly used for BL manga and work as an illustrator.
Life and career.
When she was a child, she enjoyed reading magazines like "Shōjo-tachi, Nakayoshi", "Shōjo Friend" and "Ribon." She liked to collect the supplement items that came in the magazine.
Matsuzaki made her debut as a professional manga artist in the year 1970 in the magazine "Margaret" with the oneshot "Lily" (リリー, "Ririi") after winning the newcomer prize of the magazine. She also worked in magazines of the publisher Kodansha and became an important contributor to the boys' love manga magazines "Allan" and "June."
In the 1980s and 1990s she worked in "shōjo manga" horror magazines "Monthly Halloween", "Prom Night", "Horror M", "Mystery DX" and others. In recent times, she was mostly active in Bunkasha's "josei" manga magazine "Manga Grimm Douwa" and related anthologies.
Since July 2011 she runs a blog where she mostly shows vintage manga magazines from her collection and photos of her cats. She has retired from drawing due to her poor eyesight.
Style.
The main characteristics of her works are "bishōnen" characters, homoeroticism and splatter. Matsuzaki's colored illustrations display soft shades likely influenced by Nihonga.
Illustrator and manga artist Sho Kitagawa (きたがわ翔) has stated on Twitter that he considers Akemi Matsuzaki, Yoshimi Uchida and Chiki Ōya are the big 3 of 70s "shōjo" artists when it comes to technique in analog art and that she has influenced his colored works.