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MARUO Suehiro [Edit]

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Suehiro Maruo

Name (in native language)

丸尾末広

Birth Place

Nagasaki, Japan

Birth Date

January 28, 1956

Zodiac

Aquarius

Last Updated

February 28th 2024, 8:07pm

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Maruo dropped out of senior high school in 1973 and worked in Tokyo for a bookbinder.

He is a self-taught artist whose works are characterized by extreme graphic violence and mortifying visions of sex. Many of his stories are permeated by a general surrealism.

Suehiro Maruo was born into a poor family on January 28, 1956, the youngest of seven brothers and sisters. An intensely private child, he claims not to have spoken more than a few words to his parents during his entire youth. He drew all the time as a boy and especially enjoyed tracing the popular action manga Eightman. At thirteen, Maruo began regularly skipping school in order to catch the daily showing of the popular drama Hyoten. He dropped out of school after junior high and was living on his own by the age of fifteen. He began shoplifting, which culminated in a two-week jail stay in the mid-seventies when he was caught stealing Pink Floyd and Santana records. Maruo began drawing manga seriously at age nineteen. He brought his initial efforts to Garo, but was perfunctorily rejected. Maruo describes his mature manga as a "collection of thefts" (Kazuichi Hanawa was a major influence), and he admits to lifting the idea for "Planet of the Jap" from Philip K. Dick's sci-fi classic The Man in the High Castle. He claims that publishers think his works attract the same audience as does the work of gekiga artist Yoshiharu Tsuge, but that in reality his biggest fans are high-school girls.

He also has published short stories in the "alternative" magazine Garo.

The french critic Thierry Groensteen has called him the "Marquis de Sade of manga".

Among Maruo's most famous works are "Planet of the Jap" and Shoujo Tsubaki.

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Gender

Male

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