Kaoru Curry-zawa is a Japanese manga artist and columnist born on November 22, 1982, in Yamaguchi Prefecture, where she continues to reside. She is a married woman who has humorously self-identified as an unemployed writer since June 1, 2018. Her professional debut began in 2009 when she submitted her first manga to the 26th MANGA OPEN contest hosted by Morning magazine. Although her entry, initially titled Mutai, was not selected, the editor-in-chief of the supplementary magazine Morning Two took notice and offered her a serialization, which led to the creation of her representative work, Kremlin.

Her artistic identity is firmly rooted in the genre of absurdist gag comedy, often infused with social satire. Her narratives frequently feature anthropomorphic animals that speak human language, placed alongside human characters. A distinctive visual hallmark of her style is the combination of realistically proportioned humans with highly deformed animals and some humans that are drawn with simple, emotive faces resembling the “( ´ω`)” expression. Cats are a recurring motif in her work, reflecting her personal fondness for the animal, particularly the Sphynx breed. She has also expressed an affinity for disaster films that depict the end of the world.

The manga Kremlin, which is a four-panel yonkoma comedy, represents her most significant original work. The story follows a college student named Haruo Kyattsuyama, who, after pretending not to see an abandoned Russian Blue cat for a year, eventually returns to find that there are now three identical cats, all responding to the name Kan-u. This manga served as the source material for an anime adaptation. The anime Kremlin was produced by studio DLE and aired as a flash animation ONA (Original Net Animation) consisting of five episodes, each approximately two minutes long. The series was broadcast from September 14, 2012, to February 22, 2013, and Curry-zawa is officially credited as the original creator.

Beyond Kremlin, her bibliography includes a range of manga titles such as Ammonal Customize Z, Niko Niko Hanshoku Akuma, Yawarakai Kacho Okida Soji, Yarihen, and Neko Kosen. In 2021, her work Hitoride Shinitai received the Excellence Award in the Manga Division at the 24th Japan Media Arts Festival. This particular work is scheduled to be adapted into a television drama for NHK, slated to air in June 2025. In addition to her manga, she is also a prolific essayist and columnist, with published collections including Makeru Gijutsu, Makeru Kotoba 365, Busu no Honkai, and Hikikomori Shosei-jutsu. Her writing often adopts a self-deprecating "loser's perspective," drawing from personal experiences such as being laid off from a temporary agency job, which contributes to her unique voice in the industry.