Rose-Colored Monster first edition cover (1982) The Rose-Colored Monster In 1982, Maruo published his first anthology of short works, The Rose-Colored Monster ( Barairo no kaibutsu) which also featured the nonsensical ‘German’ title Das Ungetum der Rosenstck on its cover. Punk had arrived in Japan and a new generation of publishers sought out the strange, outlandish and bizarre. Things radically changed in the early 1980s however. His first manga were rejected by the publishers – they were way too grotesque for the publishers at the time. Only a few of his works have been translated into English but those have found an international cult fan audience.īorn in Nagasaki in 1956, Maruo moved to Tokyo in the early 1970s. Suehiro Maruo is one of Japan’s leading ero-guro manga artists. The Strange Tale of Panorama Island by Suehiro Maruo
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