38 Maruo Suehiro $B4]HxKv9-(B
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38 Maruo Suehiro $B4]HxKv9-(B
Maruo's treatment of themes like sadism, decay and human brutality is highly
disturbing, definitely not intended for the girls-and-guns otaku audience. His
art has a totalitarian feel, clearly influenced by traditional and contemporary
Japanese design. (Maruo's main influence was Toshio Saeki.) Most of Maruo's
manga have been published by Seirindo, and are now mostly out of print.
(Unavailable titles include National Kid $@%J%7%g%J%k%-%C%I(B, DDT, Yume no
Q-saku, Bara-iro no Youbutsu and $Bi,i/?'%N2xJ*(B. Shoujo-baki $B>/=wDX(B
has been reprinted recently.)
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Inugami Hakase [Professor Dog-Talisman] $B8$?@Gn;N(B - published by Akita Shten,
1994, Y880.
The story of an Onmyouji (Master of Yin-Yang Tao) who deals with various
fringe occultists, and their horrific practices. Not for the
faint-hearted.
Kaze no Matenro $@Iw$NK`E>O:(B - published by Tokuma Shoten, 1994, Y880.
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Some of Maruo's short stories include:
Planet of the Jap (29 pages)
Japan wins WW2, conquers US.
Denki Ari (35 pages)
The ultimate modernist nightmare. A high school boy is trapped studying
for his entrance exams in industrial suroundings, of monstrous machines
and thunderous clangs; he loses his sanity.
Gansaku Denki Ari (21 pages)
Dadaist cyberpunk-sci fi. Android man in business suit quests for his
former self in a desolate urban landscape.
Die Andere Seite (14 pages)
One of Maruo's most artistic works. Surrealist collage of post-WW2
reconstruction, drawing from images worldwide.
Apaprition (8 pages)
Son kills his mother, when his long-last dad walks in posing as an
encyclopedia salesman.
Moon Desert (8 pages)
Boy gets lost in desert. Completely meaningless work.
Cough (16 pages)
Japanese drug dealer in contemporary US runs pot for other Japanese
tourists; clinical still-life (lifeless) depiction of modern America
(circa 1980s).
Suneko Tanpako (8 pages)
S&M sex between grown woman & dwarf man (around 50).
Shonen Gaho (10 pages)
Horrific account of little-boy life in 1950s Japan, getting his picture-
cards stolen, witnessing his parents' sex, traumatized by a horror movie,
drinking Vitamin-D fortified skim milk in school (w/ low retention rate).
SOS Boy (25 pages)
Avoidant-personality disorder boy, his drug-addict unemployed dad, his
comatose & pregnant mom, live surrounded by an industrial-complex
nightmare.
Goodbye-Hoffman (30 pages)
His prototype idea for a adventure serial (which apparently never
materialized); boy-hero (& his sister & dad) can transform himself into
anybody by contorting his face. Protects company president's brat son, for
an extraordinary fee.
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