Career
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 80s/early 90s. Her old penname is Ryo Minami (南亮, Minami Ryo), but in 1986 she changed her penname to Minami Ozaki. She sometimes uses other pseudonym — Minami Himemuro (姫室ミナミ).
In 1988 (at the age of 20), her first manga series, Chūscience no Akashi (Proof of Loyalty), was serialized in Margaret Comics.
Her success with Zetsuai 1989 has led Helen McCarthy to describe Ozaki as "one of the queens of shojo and shonen-ai manga". Through her Captain Tsubasa dojinshi, Ozaki "played a strong role" in "revamping the boys-love genre" in the 80s.
Her hallmark is "prolonged erotic psychodramas" which has earned her a "cult following" through Margaret. Matt Thorn describes her as being a "mania-oriented" artist, with "extremely stylized" character designs and page layouts with a "dream-like quality".
Her style had an enormous influence on later shōjo writers.
Since 1984 Minami Ozaki has published a lot of yaoi doujinshi. The biggest circles are:
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Calekka
Club Doll
Kreuz.