Masasumi Kakizaki

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  Minetarō Mochizuki

  Minetarō Mochizuki (望月峯太郎) is a manga artist. He is best known for his apocalyptic thriller series Dragon Head (ドラゴンヘッド Duragon Heddo), as well as the comedy series Mai Wai. Mochizuki has also written one-shot manga such as Zashiki Onna.

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  Shintaro Kago

  Kago Shintarō ( 駕籠真太郎) is a Japanese illustrator and manga artist. Kano was born in Tokyo in 1969. He debuted in 1988 on the magazine COMIC BOX. Since then his comics, usually short stories, have been published in several adult manga magazines, gaining him considerable popularity around the world.
  Kago specialises in ero-guro, a Japanese visual genre that puts its focus on eroticism, sexual corruption, and grotesque body horror. Many of Kago's manga have strongly satirical overtones, and deal with grotesque subjects such as extreme sex, scatology and body modification. His unique style has been called "fashionable paranoia".

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  Koushun Takami

  Koushun Takami (高見 広春 Takami Kōshun) is the author of the novel Battle Royale, originally published in Japanese, and later translated into English by Yuji Oniki and published by Viz Media and, later, in an expanded edition by Haika Soru, a division of Viz Media.
  
  Takami was born in Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture near Osaka and grew up in the Kagawa Prefecture of Shikoku. After graduating from Osaka University with a degree in literature, he dropped out of Nihon University's liberal arts correspondence course program. From 1991 to 1996, he worked for the news company Shikoku Shimbun, reporting on various fields including politics, police reports, and economics.
  
  The novel Battle Royale was completed after Takami left the news company. It was reje

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  Shiro Kuroi

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  Honorable Mention in Winter 2007 and the grand-prize winner in Summer 2008 of the Afternoon Four Seasons Award under the pen-name Kannosuke Hiramatsu.
  

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  Ryo Minenami

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  Yuu Kuraishi

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  Inio Asano

  Inio Asano (浅野いにお, Asano Inio) is a Japanese cartoonist. He is known for his character-driven stories and his detailed art-style, making him one of the most influential manga author of his generation.
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  Hiroya Oku

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  He won the second prize of the Youth Manga Awards in 1988, under the penname Yahiro Kuon.
  
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  Naoki Urasawa

  Urasawa Naoki (浦沢直樹) is a Japanese mangaka. He is perhaps best known for Monster (which drew praise from Junot Díaz, the 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner) and 20th Century Boys.
  
  Urasawa's work often concentrates on intricate plotting, interweaving narratives, a deep focus on character development and psychological complexity. Urasawa has won the Shogakukan Manga Award, the Japan Media Arts Festival excellence award, the Kodansha Manga Award and the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. In 2008 Urasawa accepted a guest teaching post at Nagoya Zokei University.
  
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  - YAWARA! 1986-1993;
  - Master Keaton (MASTERキートン) 1988-1994, written by Hokusei Ka

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  Usamaru Furuya

  Usamaru Furuya (古屋兎丸) is a Japanese manga creator from Tokyo. His production covers a variety of art styles and genres, such as horror, humour, slice-of-life, erotica, sci-fi, always with a personal surrealistic touch. Society oppression and the human condition are common themes in his body of work.
  Furuya showed an interest in comics making since elementary school. He graduated from Tama Art University, where he had studied sculpture and oil painting.
  His manga career started in the alternative magazine 'Garo', in which he published a series of one-page comics called Palepoli (1994-1995). He then worked on Short Cuts (1996-1999), a gag manga serialised in the mainstream magazine 'Weekly Young Sunday'. Other short stories from the same perio

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  Junji Ito

  Junji Itō (Japanese: 伊藤潤二, Ito Junji) is a Japanese cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his horror manga.
  Ito was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan in 1963. He was inspired to make art from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's horror comics. Until the early 1990s he worked as a dental technician, while making comics as a side job. By the time he turned into a full time mangaka, Ito was already an acclaimed horror artists.
  His comics are celebrated for their finely depicted body horrors, while also retaining some elements of psychological horror and erotism.
  Although he mostly produces short stories, Ito is best known for his longer comic series: Tomie (1987-2000), about a beautiful high school girl who inspires her

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  Ryosuke Tomoe

  亮介 Ryôsuke Tomoe

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  Hideo Yamamoto

  山本英夫 Yamamoto Hideo , is a Japanese manga artist best known for the manga series "Ichi the Killer" (which was adapted into a live-action film in 2001) and the series, Homunculus (manga).
  Recurring themes in his manga are crime, sexual deviations, and psychology.

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  Kengo Hanazawa

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  Yukito Ayatsuji

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  'Yukito Ayatsuji' is the original creator of Another. He is a famous writer of mystery and Japanese detective fiction. He is also one of the writers that demands restoration of the classic rules of detective fiction and the use of more self reflective elements. He is married to Fuyumi Ono, author of The Twelve Kingdoms and creator of Ghost Hunt, Juuni Kokuki, and the author for a few other manga.

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  Makoto Kedouin

  KEDOUIN Makoto
  Name (in native language): 祁答院慎
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  天神小学校 用務員
  Kedwin

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  Masaya Hokazono

  Masaya Hokazono, 外薗 昌也, is a Japanese mangaka.
  
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  代表作は『犬神』『エマージング』『赤い妹』『黒異本』『蟲姫』など。漫画・漫画原作・時代小説・実話怪談等々と幅広いジャンルで執筆をこなし、現在自分が何者なのかよくわからなくなりつつある。
  
  現在、日本文芸社「Webゴラクエッグ(http://www.nihonbungeisha.co.jp/gorak...。
  その他、ホラー漫画試し読みサイト『恐ろし屋』(http://osoroshiya.com)を運営。

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  Hideshi Hino

  Hideshi Hino (日野日出志 Hino Hideshi, born April 19, 1946) is a Japanese manga artist who specializes in horror stories. His comics include Hell Baby, Hino Horrors, and Panorama of Hell. He also wrote and directed two of the Guinea Pig horror movies which were based on his manga: Flower of Flesh and Blood, which he also starred in, and Mermaid in a Manhole.

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  Mikoto Yamaguchi

  AKA 山口ミコト
  

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  Junji Ito

  Junji Itō (Japanese: 伊藤潤二, Ito Junji) is a Japanese cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his horror manga.
  Ito was born in Gifu Prefecture, Japan in 1963. He was inspired to make art from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's horror comics. Until the early 1990s he worked as a dental technician, while making comics as a side job. By the time he turned into a full time mangaka, Ito was already an acclaimed horror artists.
  His comics are celebrated for their finely depicted body horrors, while also retaining some elements of psychological horror and erotism.
  Although he mostly produces short stories, Ito is best known for his longer comic series: Tomie (1987-2000), about a beautiful high school girl who inspires her

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  Kei Koga

  Associated Names:
  * Kei Koga
  * 古賀慶 (Japanese Profile)

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  Shingo Honda

  Associated Names:
  * 本田真吾 (Japanese)
  * Shingo Honda (English)

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  Tōru Fujisawa

  Tōru Fujisawa (japanese: 藤沢とおる; also Toru, Tôru Fujisawa or Tooru Fujisawa) began his career as mangaka in 1989 with Adesugata Junjou Boy serialized in the Weekly Shonen Magazine.

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  Shuho Sato

  Shuho Sato (佐藤 秀峰, Syuho Sato) is a Japanese manga artist. He won the Japan Media Arts Festival Manga Award (文化庁メディア芸術祭漫画部門優秀賞) for his work "Say Hello to Black Jack"
  
  His assistants have included his wife, manga artist Tomomi Sato, as well as Masasumi Kakizaki (one year before his debut), Takahisa Shiratori, Itsunari Fujii, Eiji Nomura, Takashi Yoshida, and Kōjirō Umezawa.

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  Suehiro Maruo

  Suehiro Maruo ( 丸尾 末広) is a Japanese manga author and illustrator.
  Maruo graduated from junior high school in March 1972 but dropped out of senior high school. At the age of 15 he moved to Tokyo and began working for a bookbinder. At 17, he made his first manga submission to Weekly Shōnen Jump, but it was considered by the editors to be too graphic for the magazine's format and was subsequently rejected. Maruo temporarily removed himself from manga until November 1980 when he made his official debut as a manga artist in Ribon no Kishi (リボンの騎士) at the age of 24. It was at this stage that the young artist was finally able to pursue his artistic vision without such stringent restrictions over the visual content of his work. Two years later, hi

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  Yoru Sumino

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  * Yoru Sumino
  * 住野よる (Japanese Profile)
  * โยรุ ซูมิโนะ (Thai Profile)
  
  Yoru Sumino (住野よる) is a Japanese writer best known for I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, the novel that became a manga and two films.

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  Masaaki Nakayama

  Masaaki Nakayama (中山昌亮) is a horror manga artist, and author of the series Fuan no Tane (Seeds of Anxiety).

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  Chris Priestley

  His father was in the army and so he moved around a lot as a child and lived in Wales. He was an avid reader of American comics as a child, and when he was eight or nine, and living in Gibraltar, he won a prize in a newspaper story-writing competition. He decided then “that my ambition was to write and illustrate my own book”.
  He spent his teens in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, before moving to Manchester, London and then Norfolk. He now lives in Cambridge with his wife and son where he writes, draws, paints, dreams and doodles (not necessarily in that order). Chris worked as an illustrator and cartoonist for twenty years, working mainly for magazines & newspapers (these include The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Economist and the Wall Str

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  Shindo L

  aka 新堂エル (Shindo Eru) aka Da Hootch.

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  Yoshiki Tonogai

  Yoshiki Tonogai (外海良基 Tonogai Yoshiki, born March 14) is a Japanese manga artist from Shiga, Japan.

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  Yuu Kuraishi

  See also: 蔵石ユウ (Japanese name)

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  Shingo Honda

  Associated Names:
  * 本田真吾 (Japanese)
  * Shingo Honda (English)

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  Jenaro Martinez

  Jenaro Martínez (Monterrey, MX 1973) tiene más de 25 años de experiencia en las industrias de tecnología, medios y telecomunicaciones. Es también emprendedor de startups tecnológicas y cofundador de la Editorial 42 Líneas. Su primera novela, Invasión silenciosa, marca el inicio de una ambiciosa trilogía de ciencia ficción. Su interés por el origen de la vida y la paleontología, la vida extraterrestre y la astrofísica detona, en su obra, una frenética historia que refleja la naturaleza humana y el mundo actual en el que vivimos. Actualmente, escribe la segunda entrega de la saga de Invasión silenciosa.
  
  Jenaro Martinez (Monterrey, Mexico 1973) has more than 25 years of experience in the technology, media and telecom industries. He is also tech

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  Nokuto Koike

  Please also see Japanese language profile: 小池ノクト.

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  Kenan Yarar

  Çizgi romancılığa 1992' de RR (Resimli Roman) ve Zeplin dergilerinde başladı. Daha sonra Dıgıl, Avni, Car-Men, Eroskop gibi dergilerde çalışmalarını sürdürdü. Uzun süre çalıştığı Hıbır ve HBR Maymun'da çizgi kişiliğini oturttu ve kendi okuyucusunu buldu. Hıbır'da çizmeye başladığı Hilal karakterini L-Manyak'ta ve Lombak'ta da çizmeyi sürdürdü ve popüler hale getirdi. Hilal'in yanı sıra Psikoz öyküleri başlığıyla kısa fantastik öyküler çizmeyi de sürdürdü. Lombak dergisinin kapanmasının ardından Psikoz öyküleri'ni Penguen dergisinde çizmeye devam etti.
  
  Çizgileri Enki Bilal ve Milo Manara etkisinde gelişse de zamanla kişiliği oturmuştur. Günümüzde çizgi roman denilince Galip Tekin ve Suat Gönülay ile birlikte ilk akla gelen isimlerdendir.

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