Nagabe

Nagabe is a Japanese manga artist who studied fine arts at Musashino University. Rather than taking the traditional apprenticeship path into the industry, Nagabe trained independently, and was still a student when his first published work appeared. His debut attracted attention for its distinctive drawing style - heavily influenced by fine art printmaking - and for narratives blending the fantastical with the melancholic.

His best-known work, "The Girl from the Other Side", ran from 2015 to 2021 across eleven volumes in Monthly Comic Garden. Set in a medieval-like world where a deadly curse spreads by touch, it was partly inspired by the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast and was nominated for the Best Comic award at the 2018 Angoulême International Comics Festival. An animated film adaptation by Wit Studio was released in 2022.

2010s

2013
Buchou wa Onee (部長はオネエ)

2015
Nivawa to Saitou (ニヴァウァと斎藤)
Totsukuni no Shōjo (とつくにの少女) | Published in English as "The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún" (2015 - 2021)
Wizdoms no Kemono-tachi (ウィズダムズのけものたち) | Published in English as "The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms" 

2016
Henteko na Ai: Nagabe Tanpenshuu (ながべ短編集 -ヘンテコな愛-) | Published in English as "Love On The Other Side: A Nagabe Short Story Collection" 
Ishu Renai Monogatarishuu (異種恋愛物語集) | Anthology with Takayama, Shinobu; Aikawa, Yuu; Kissan, D.; Kamikou, Chizu; Moukon, Icchokusen; Sanzou; Mogusu, Sumiyoshi, Ryou; Yamashiro, Umeta; Ogata, Tomio

2019
Monotōn burū (モノトーン・ブルー) | Published in English as "Monotone Blue"

2020s

2022
EAT | Published in English as "Eat"
SMELL | Published in English as "Smell"