Maki Murakami

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Maki Murakami
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Manga artist
Known for	Gravitation

Maki Murakami (村上真紀, Murakami Maki^?) is a Japanese manga artist most famous for the boys love manga Gravitation, which, in addition to the Gravitation novel, is published by in the U.S. by TOKYOPOP. TOKYOPOP also has Kanpai! licensed. Gravitation was the first BL to have broken into mainstream leading way for the overwhelming popularity of yaoi/shounen-ai today. There are twelve volumes currently available; and she is continuing the series with Gravitation EX(which is also licensed by TOKYOPOP),there are also two novels (one of which is written by Murakami herself). She also has written several issues of yaoi doujinshi, published by her doujinshi circle; Crocodile Avenue. (Not actually published, it can only be purchased through doujinshi carriers & CA's website). Rimigra aka Remix Gravitation is the most popular and consists of sexual content but of quite a mild nature, unlike Megamix Gravitation, which is very explicit and detailed. Gravitation was so successful it has its own anime series, which consists of 13 episodes. She has created other manga, but Gravitation is the most famous.

Maki Murakami has continued the Gravitation series with Gravitation EX, which has also been licensed by TOKYOPOP.

Her latest work is Gamerz Heaven, which includes 4 volumes in Japan. It is currently licensed by ADV Films in America.

She is one of many manga artists who draws her own doujinshi including Gravitation Remix 1-12, Gravitation Megamix EST, Gravitation Megamix Panda, Gravitation Megamix Kumagoro, Gravitation Megamix Capybara, Kanpai! DJ - Unapai, Gamerz Heaven DJ - Director's Cut, and much more.

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She is shy of being photographed, as it was reported on the Otakon 2007 website, where it is stated that "A condition of her visit is that there be no photographs taken of her while she's at Otakon".