Yun Kōga


Risa Kimura, better known by her pen name Yun Kōga is a Japanese manga artist. She is married to fellow manga artist Tatsuneko, from whom he took the name of Risa Yamada. She is a graduate of Mita Senior High School, Tokyo. She currently lives in Setagaya, Tokyo with her husband and daughter.
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Profile

She began her career as a dōjinshi artist creating dōjinshi for works such as Saint Seiya, Captain Tsubasa and Maōden.
She debuted in a commercial magazine with the original work Metal Heart. After her debut, she continued to contribute on numerous dōjin works. However, the later disbanding of a dōjin circle, Yajō Teikoku, she had founded with Maki Chikura, led to her taking numerous breaks from her commercial works. Due to this, there were incomplete works penned by her during this period.
During her years in middle school, she had been a fan of Masami Kurumada's manga series Ring ni Kakero, Fūma no Kojirō, Saint Seiya and B't X, sending Kurumada numerous fan letters asking to meet him, after which Kurumada finally agreed, inviting her to his workplace.
When asked about her pen name in an interview in the September 2006 issue of Puff, she responded that she had originally thought of making it Jun Kōga, but subsequently changed it to Yun Kōga.
Among her noted works is Loveless, which has been serialized in Monthly Comic Zero Sum since 2002 and is ongoing, as well as her work Tenshichō. She has also worked as an illustrator on the noted literary magazine Faust.
In 2007, she contributed the character designs to the Sunrise anime series, Mobile Suit Gundam 00.

Manga works

Unfinished/current works

  • Loveless 2001–
  • Tenshichō 2002–2007
  • Kill Me 2003–2006
  • Satō-kun and Tanaka-san -The blood highschool 2007–
  • Kurumada Suidoken Hero of Heroes 2013–
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Completed works

  • Rōrakaizā 1988–1993
  • REN AI - Renai - 1989–1999
  • You're My Only Shinin' Star 1989–1990
  • Kiga Ichizoku 1992–1993
  • Gestalt 1992–2001
  • Yousei Jiken 1993–1999

Incomplete works

  • B-gata Doumei 1988–1989
  • Genji 1988–1995
  • Yajō Teikoku 1988–1989
  • Arisu in Wonderland 1989–1992
  • Vanpu - Kyūketsu no To - 1989–1995
  • Hurricane Hill 1997
  • Chronicle 1998
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Short works

  • Metal Heart 1986
  • Mind Size 1986–1988
  • Glass Magic 1988
  • Hot Staff '88 1988
  • Ōkami wo Meguru Bouken 1989
  • Kugatsu no Natsu 1989
  • Yakusoku no Natsu 1991
  • Yousei Jiken 1992 1992
  • Kurayamizaka 1999

Collaborations

Artbook collections

Other works

Original character designs

Illustrations

  • Makenden
  • Mangaka Marina series
  • High School Aura Buster
  • Light Gene no Isan
  • Moerurubu Tokyo Annai 2006