Artist
Usamaru Furuya
古屋兎丸
- Mangaka
Official links & profiles
At a glance
Kaidomi catalogues Usamaru Furuya as Mangaka. The catalogue records 8 title-backed credits. Documented work includes No Longer Human, Lychee Light Club and Jisatsu Circle. This artist hub connects works, roles and official profiles.
Source biography
Education: Tama Art University
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He is a Japanese mangaka, writer and illustrator. He studied sculpture and abstract three-dimensional figures in art school, and afterwards even became involved with butoh dance. For a while he worked as a high school art teacher.
He made his debut as a manga artist with the ground-breaking four-panel "gag" strip "Palepoli," which was serialized in the legendary avant-garde comics magazine Garo in 1994. Since then he has gone on to publish in major weekly magazines in Japan, such as Young Sunday (where Short Cuts was first serialized). In English, his work has appeared in PULP: The Manga Magazine and Secret Comics Japan.
Known for
8 title-backed credits in the catalogue
Works made
No Longer HumanStory & ArtManga · 2009
Lychee Light ClubStory & ArtManga · 2005
Jisatsu CircleStory & ArtManga · 2002
The Music of MarieStory & ArtManga · 1999
Genkaku PicassoStory & ArtManga · 2008
PalepoliStory & ArtManga · 1994
Kanojo wo Mamoru 51 no HouhouStory & ArtManga · 2006
Plastic GirlStory & ArtManga · 1998