Biography

Lynn Okamoto is a Japanese mangaka and the author of manga series such as "Elfen Lied" and "Brynhildr in the Darkness". While he was a student, Okamoto worked for Arc Work Systems on a part-time job basis and participated in the development of various TV/Windows games based on the Sailor Moon series. After graduating, he joined Bandai, and while there, continued to take part in game development, but this time he helped plan puzzle games for Sailor Moon. Although it was his dream occupation since his high school days, Okamoto gave up on it when he graduated from university. He later resigned from Bandai at the age of 28 in order to become a professional manga writer, another dream of his.

He is known to be an intensely private individual. Residing in Tokyo, Japan, he is the creator, and artist for the Elfen Lied Manga series and was a consultant on its anime adaptation.

He made his debut into the manga world in January 2000 with his first short story manga titled "Elfen Lied," which bears almost no connection with his 2002-2005 work, Elfen Lied. He says that the first "Elfen Lied," a tsundere type of love story about young musicians, is the only manga he wrote before becoming professional.

His other major works include Nononono (2007-2010), a romantic drama about ski jumping, and Brynhildr in the Darkness (2012-2016), a spiritual successor to Elfen Lied that focuses on Norse Mythology. The only one of his stories not illustrated by him as well is Kimi wa Midara na Boku no Joou (2012), which was drawn by Mengo Yokoyari. Previously, all of his works have begun their serialization in Shueisha's seinen magazine Weekly Young Jump. However, his current work, Parallel Paradise, began serialization in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine starting in 2017.

He also wrote a short story called MOL which seems to have served as a prototype story to both Elfen Lied and Brynhildr in the Darkness, focusing on a boy who came across a girl who was being experimented on. It is unknown when it was exactly made but it has his really early 2000s art style before his art evolved later on and was officially published a year after Elfen Lied finished.
- IMDb mini biography by: Elfen Lied Wiki