Hideo Yamamoto

Japanese manga artist

Hideo Yamamoto
Born	(1968-06-23) June 23, 1968 (age 55) Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Manga artist
Known for	Ichi the Killer Homunculus

Hideo Yamamoto (山本英夫, Yamamoto Hideo) is a Japanese manga artist. He is best known as the creator of the manga series Ichi the Killer, which was adapted into a live-action film by Takashi Miike in 2001, and Homunculus.

Recurring themes in his manga are crime, sexual deviations, and the human mind.

Biography

Hideo Yamamoto received the "Tetsuya Chiba Award", given to promising young manga creators in 1988. After resigning from the post of assistant of a popular seinen manga artist, Kenshi Hirokane, he made his professional debut by drawing SHEEP (written by Masahiko Takasho) for Weekly Young Sunday in 1989.

Works

Sheep, 1989
Okama Report, 1989–1991
Voyeur (Nozokiya), 1992
Another One Bites The Dust (illustrated by Koshiba Tetsuya)
Voyeurs, Inc. (Shin Nozokiya), 1993–1997
Ichi the Killer, 1998–2001^[1]
Homunculus, 2003–2011^[1]
Yume Onna, 2013 (illustrated by Hiroya Oku)
Hikari-Man, 2014–2020
Adam and Eve, 2015–2016 (illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami)

References

^ ^a ^b Lin, Maria (May 2005). "Dark Plots in Manga Land". Animefringe. 6 (5). ISSN 1705-3692. Retrieved February 26, 2011. If it's serial killers and unconscious monsters that you want, the following dark manga will leave your head in a satisfying knot.