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Shigeru Mura ( Japanese: 武良 茂, Hepburn: Mura Shigeru, March 8, 1922 – November 30, 2015), also known as Shigeru Mizuki (水木 しげる, Mizuki Shigeru), was a Japanese manga artist and historian. He was known for his yōkai manga such as GeGeGe no Kitarō and Akuma-kun, as well as for his war stories based on his own war manga such as Shōwa-shi .
Shigeru Mizuki was a Japanese manga author, most known for his shounen horror manga Gegege no Kitarou. A specialist in stories of youkai, he is considered a master of the genre. To a lesser but still notable degree, he is also known for his World War II memoirs, as well as a writer and biographer.
Dec 1, 2015 · TOKYO — Shigeru Mizuki, an influential and widely popular Japanese cartoonist with a talent for humanizing mythical monsters and dissecting the monstrous side of humanity, died here on Monday. He...
Dec 10, 2015 · “In our military, soldiers and socks were consumables; a soldier ranked no higher than a cat,” the Japanese manga artist Shigeru Mizuki recalled in the afterword to his haunting illustrated...
Shigeru Mizuki (1922-2015) was the author of the manga masterpiece "GeGeGe no Kitaro" and "Akuma-kun", amongst many others. We aim to discover the man behind the...
Nov 30, 2015 · One of Japan’s most influential cartoonists, a badly wounded second world war veteran whose dark themes helped propel manga and anime into a multibillion-dollar global industry, has died at the...
Dec 1, 2015 · Manga fans around the world are mourning the death of famed Japanese artist Shigeru Mizuki, who died on Monday. Known for having popularised horror manga globally, Mr Mizuki was best known for...
Nov 30, 2015 · Shigeru Mizuki was a Japanese manga artist and historian, best known for his manga series GeGeGe no Kitarō. Born in a hospital in Osaka and raised in the city of Sakaiminato, Tottori,...
NonNonBa is the definitive work by acclaimed Gekiga-ka Shigeru Mizuki, a poetic memoir detailing his interest in yokai (spirit monsters). Mizuki's childhood experiences with yokai influenced the course of his life and oeuvre; he is now known as the forefather of yokai manga.
Nov 30, 2015 · The award-winning Japanese manga artist Shigeru Mizuki, whose work depicted the horrors of war, has died aged 93. Mr Mizuki, a household name in Japan, died of multiple organ failure on Monday,...
