is a
Japanese manga artist
A is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. As of 2006, about 3,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan.
Most manga artists study at an art college or manga school or take on an apprenticeship with another artist be ...
. 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
is a Japanese manga artist famous for his sports stories. Chiba's works include ''Ashita no Joe'', his best known work, and ''Notari Matsutarō''. Many of his early titles are still in print due to continued popularity.
Life
He was born in Ch ...
Award", given to promising young
manga
Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is u ...
creators in 1988. After resigning from the post of assistant of a popular
seinen manga
is an editorial category of Japanese comics marketed toward young adult men. In Japanese, the word ''seinen'' literally means "youth", but the term "''seinen'' manga" is also used to describe the target audience of magazines like ''Weekly Ma ...
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
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hideo Yamamoto. The series follows Shinya Okama, a straight college student who works at an ''okama'' bar (a cross-dressing gay bar). ''Okama Report'' was serialized in the manga magazin ...
'', 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
* ''
Homunculus'', 2003–2011
[
* ''Yume Onna'', 2013 (illustrated by Hiroya Oku)
* '']Hikari-Man
''Hikari-Man'' (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hideo Yamamoto. It was serialized in Shogakukan's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Big Comic Spirits'' from December 2014 to June 2020, with its c ...
'', 2014–2020
* '' Adam and Eve'', 2015–2016 (illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami)
References
External links
Hideo Yamamoto
in Media Arts Database
*
1968 births
Living people
Manga artists from Saitama Prefecture
People from Tokorozawa, Saitama
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