Yamamoto, Hideo

Hideo Yamamoto (山本英夫) is a Japanese manga artist born in Saitama in 1968. He won the Tetsuya Chiba Award for promising new creators in 1988 and made his professional debut in 1989 in Weekly Young Sunday after working as an assistant to industry veteran Kenshi Hirokane. Recurring themes throughout his work include crime, psychology, sexual deviance, and the instability of identity.

He is best known internationally for two series: Ichi the Killer, a brutal yakuza thriller that was adapted into a cult film by Takashi Miike in 2001, and "Homunculus", a cerebral psychological horror series in which trepanation unlocks the ability to perceive other people's repressed traumas as monstrous physical forms. Before writing Homunculus, Yamamoto lived as a homeless person to prepare for the series' themes.

1980s

1989
Seizon YūgeSHEEP (生存遊戲SHEEP) with Masahiko Takajo
Okama Hakusho (おカマ白書) (1989 - 1991)

1990s

1992
Nozokiya (のぞき屋) | Published in English as "Voyeur" (1992)

1993
Shin Nozokiya (新・のぞき屋) | Published in English as "Voyeurs, Inc." (1993 - 1997)

1998
Koroshiya Ichi (殺し屋1) | Published in English as "Ichi the Killer" (1998 - 2001)
Enjokousai bokumetsu undou (援助交際撲滅運動) with Tetsuya Koshiba

2000s

2003
Homunkurusu (ホムンクルス) | Published in English as "Homunculus" (2003 - 2011)

2010s

2013
Yume on'na (夢女) with Hiroya Oku

2014
Hikarijin (光人) | Published in English as "Hikari-Man" (2014 - 2020)
Sayonara Karada (さよなら身体)

2015
Adamu to Ibu (アダムとイブ) (2015 - 2016) with Ryoichi Ikegami