Education
Bang attended Den-En Chofu Hikiba High School, then Tamagawa University Department of Agriculture, and worked on a farm.
一本木 蛮
Bang attended Den-En Chofu Hikiba High School, then Tamagawa University Department of Agriculture, and worked on a farm.
She has been called "one of the most well-known manga artists in America in the mid-1990s."
She made her manga debut as a schoolgirl in 1983 with Bang"s Campus Diary in the cult magazine Fanroad. The manga depicted semi-autobiographical details from her life, including her experiences at the agricultural college. As she progressed in her career, she became known as a flamboyant personality who was involved in bikini modeling, cosplay and dressing as manga characters such as Rumiko Takahashi"s Lum.
Along with several friends, she started up a manga collective called "Studio Do-Do" and several of their works were translated and published in the United States in the 1990s by Antarctic Press.
Bang, who had once been an exchange student in the United States and was familiar with the American scene, came to American conventions to promote her work. After Antarctic Press stopped publishing manga in the mid-1990s, Bang"s works such as Virtual Bang, Doctor! Bang married in 1996 and although she has published little professional work since 2000, she did release a book in 2008, Fight, Okusan! Infertility Boogie (戦え奥さん!!不妊症ブギ, Tatakae Okusan! Funinshô Boogie) (), a volume of comics about infertility.