Background
He was born in Niihama, Ehime.
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He was born in Niihama, Ehime.
He studied manga via a mail-offered course and wrote to various manga magazines.
After graduating from high school on March 1955, he started working at a factory in Osaka making car parts but quit after only ten months. In 1958 came his first commercially printed work and he began his career as a manga artist. He is best known for Nippon Keibaden that detailed the history of Japan"s horse racing industry and its horses.
He is also known for beautiful amazon-like heroines who are never daunted by the hardship they endure.
Since 1970, he has written a series of works titled Sasori, literature scorpion, which is the name for a female inmate and heroine. Director Shunya Ito started a series of ten films starring Meiko Kaji based on the manga.
However, Ito withdrew from the project after three, and Kaji four films.