(born in 1960) is a Japanese

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. Born in Tokyo, Koike won the prestigious

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in 1976, when he was 16. His style, similar to

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and

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, is marked by vivid representations of

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experiences. Drugs are an important part of his inspiration: "Except peyotl, I have tried almost everything: hashish, heroin, cocain, acid, magic mushrooms... From a strictly graphical point of view, however,

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is most important by far..." He is best known as the author of

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'' and ''

Ultra Heaven is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Keiichi Koike. It was serialized intermittently in Enterbrain's manga magazine ''Comic Beam'' starting in its July 2001 issue and has been collected into three . The manga is set in a ...

''. His work was first presented to English audiences in 2016.

Works

* 1985: '' Shadow Man'' * 1985–1986: ''

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'' * 1988: '' Katajikenai'' * 1988: '' G'' * 1989–1991: ''

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'' * 2002–hiatus: ''

'' * 2003: ''

References

Manga artists from Tokyo Japanese graphic novelists 1960 births Living people {{Manga-artist-stub