During his high school years , he encountered Shigeru Mizuki 's manga in the magazine Garo and decided to become a manga artist. In 1968, he organized the hand-drawn manga fanzine Mononoke with Yaga Heiyu and Uhara Yasutoshi.

He made his debut in Garo in 1971 with "Urabure Yokaze." His drawings were so bad that there was debate within the editorial department, but the editor-in-chief, Katsuichi Nagai , decided to publish them. In parallel with Garo, he began publishing works intermittently in Manga Erogenica , one of the big three third-rate gekiga magazines, from 1976. From 1980, he also published works in Manga Kisoutengai , one of the new wave manga magazines. As a new wave manga artist in Osaka alongside Ishii Hisaichi and Hisauchi Michio, he also participated in Murakami Tomohiko 's Mangakincho (1980). He was one of the major manga artists active from the third-rate gekiga boom of the late 1970s to the new wave era of the early 1980s.