Youka Nitta

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| name = Youka Nitta

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| birth_date = March 8, 1971

| birth_place = Fukui Prefecture, Japan

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| nationality = Japanese

| known_for = yaoi manga

| occupation = Manga artist

| website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20181204113907/https://nittayouka.com/ Youka Nitta's official English site (archive)]

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{{Nihongo|Youka Nitta|新田祐克}}, born March 8, 1971, is a Japanese yaoi manga artist. Although Nitta was already a fan of manga, she was introduced to yaoi manga when she was in grade five, by an older girl who was her neighbour.{{Cite web|last=Cha|first=Kai-Ming|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6332853.html|title=Embracing Youka Nitta|work=Publishers Weekly|date=May 9, 2006|access-date=March 1, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070423193917/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6332853.html|archive-date=April 23, 2007}} Her first manga story, "GROUPIE", was published by Biblos in 1997.{{cite web|last=Nitta|first=Youka|title=Nitta Youka's Profile|url=http://nittayouka.com/|publisher=Nitta Youka website|access-date=July 1, 2010|archive-date=July 3, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100703040548/http://nittayouka.com/|url-status=dead}} She believes in characters not always having to be the seme or uke,O’Connell, M. [http://www.sequentialtart.com/article.php?id=99 "Embracing Yaoi Manga: Youka Nitta"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070227233701/http://www.sequentialtart.com/article.php?id=99 |date=February 27, 2007 }}. Sequential Tart. April 2006. and her Embracing Love has been called the first title available with a "reversible" couple in English.Wood, Andrea. Nitta is notable as one of the few josei artists working in the Boys'-Love manga genre whose work is enjoyed and openly celebrated by gay male audiences for her masculine male couple drawings and acknowledgement of LGBT issues and themes that are extremely rare within the BL genre making sales within the queer community as well as Winter Cicada being put on MTV's Logo. (Spring 2006). "Straight" Women, Queer Texts: Boy-Love Manga and the Rise of a Global Counterpublic. WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, 34 (1/2), pp. 394–414. In 2008 it was reported that Nitta had infringed upon the copyright of advertising photographs by tracing them for illustrations in her manga Embracing Love; she subsequently apologized for the misuse, as did her publisher.{{cite web|title=Embracing Love's Nitta Acknowledges Tracing Photo|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-07-12/embracing-love-nitta-acknowledges-tracing-photo|publisher=Anime News Network|access-date=July 1, 2010|archive-date=August 12, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100812074750/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-07-12/embracing-love-nitta-acknowledges-tracing-photo|url-status=live}} Nitta attended the 2002 Yaoi-Con{{cite web | url = http://www.animecons.com/events/info.shtml/306 | title = Yaoi-Con 2002 Information | publisher = AnimeCons.com | access-date = July 1, 2010 | archive-date = September 29, 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170929000625/http://animecons.com/events/info.shtml/306 | url-status = live }} and the 2006 New York Comic Con but cancelled her planned appearance at the 2008 Yaoi-Con in the aftermath of the tracing scandal.{{cite web|title=Youka Nitta Out of Yaoi-Con, Laura Bailey Out of Ai-Kon|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-07-15/youka-nitta-out-of-yaoi-con-laura-bailey-out-of-ai-kon|publisher=Anime News Network|access-date=July 1, 2010|archive-date=January 26, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100126020519/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-07-15/youka-nitta-out-of-yaoi-con-laura-bailey-out-of-ai-kon|url-status=live}}