Est Em | |
|---|---|
| えすとえむ | |
| Born | Maki Satoh Tokyo, Japan |
| Occupation | Manga artist |
| Known for | Yaoi |
| Website | est em's official site est em's blog |
Maki Satoh (佐藤まき, Satō Maki), known by the pen name Est Em (えすとえむ, Esu to Emu; "S and M", stylized as est em), is a Japanese manga artist.
She made her debut as a professional manga artist with three yaoi collections after being scouted in art school. She was a student of Rachel Thorn, who provided translations for some of the English licenses of her work. Her work has been praised as having unusual maturity and depth, both for yaoi and for manga in general. She is currently working on non-yaoi manga.
Two of her first manga have been released in English by Aurora Publishing, which was a direct subsidiary of the Japanese publishing company Ohzora Shuppan, the original publishers of one of the works in question. A third has been licensed by Net Comics. In addition, her work Tableau Numbero 20, has been released by the Viz Media imprint Sublime.