# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/minami-ozaki
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:39:01.194Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/minami-ozaki"
name: "Minami Ozaki"
slug: "minami-ozaki"
description: "Minami Ozaki  is a Japanese manga artist, cartoonist and illustrator of novels born on February 27, 1968, in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. She is famous for her best-selling manga series Zetsuai 1989, which is considered to have redefined the Shōnen-ai/Yaoi genres in the late 1980s/early 1990s. Her old pen name is Ryo Minami , but in 1986 she changed her pen name to Minami Ozaki. She sometimes uses other pseudonym—Minami Himemuro (姫室ミナミ)."
tagline: "Japanese manga artist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1968-02-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.55
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.634704
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://ozakiminami.jp/"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%BE%E5%B4%8E%E5%8D%97"
    title: "尾崎南"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minami_Ozaki"
    title: "Minami Ozaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minami_Ozaki"
    title: "Minami Ozaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minami_Ozaki"
    title: "Minami Ozaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minami_Ozaki"
    title: "Minami Ozaki"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%BE%E5%B4%8E%E5%8D%97"
    title: "尾崎南"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%98%A4%EC%9E%90%ED%82%A4_%EB%AF%B8%EB%82%98%EB%AF%B8"
    title: "오자키 미나미"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%B4%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B8%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8"
    title: "Одзаки, Минами"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q247028"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump