MINEKURA KAZUYA'S PROFILE

Translated from her official webpage (corrections welcome):

Born on March 23, 1975. Aries, blood type A. A female Kazuya.
Made her debut in 1993, on Kadokawa Shoten Comic GENKI (Genzai).
On the year 2000, worked on various manga projects at Genzai Enix, Tokuma Shoten, and Shinshokan
Smokes Cabin Super Mild
Besides bean curd, eats anything that takes to the sky, short of an airplane
Habits <<< drinking, smoking, getting drunk, gluttony, sleeping, hoarding, reckless driving, walking around in a daze

Nitro - Minekura Kazuya's official site

My thoughts on Minekura's artwork:

I'm not new to long-limbed, knotty physiques in manga. Flip through the Be-Boy anthologies, look at other "adult" titles like Shiikugakari Rika (Rika the Breeder) by the celebrated Motoni Modoru. Spindly bodies and GREAT suits/dresses galore. This penchant for anorexic beauty brings to mind the fashion design world.

Minekura's solidly proportional style is of course unique to her, but on a wider scale, it seems to involve a technique widely used in manga genres targeting mature readers.

Her poses convey a hard sensuality, a conscious worldliness denoting intelligence and awareness in her characters, perhaps as a reflection of her own best traits.

She has no problem with facial expressions, which I always admire. However, she seems to have a little trouble making the eyes parallel, particularly smaller adult eyes, like Gojyo, Hakkai and Sanzo's (I understand Sanzo's eyes are especially hard to draw, being downturned).