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An Gura's Suehiro Maruo Launches New Manga
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
The November issue of Kadokawa's Monthly Comic Beam magazine revealed on Friday that Suehiro Maruo will launch a new manga titled Satsujin 28-gou (Murder No. 28) in the magazine's next issue on November 12.
The manga centers on a young man whose father is a famous freak show performer, as he recounts the tragic story of his life in a prison-like hospital.
Maruo's An Gura (an abbreviation for "underground") manga ended in Monthly Comic Beam magazine in March 2023.
Maruo (Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show, The Strange Tale of Panorama Island) launched the An Gura manga in Monthly Comic Beam in November 2021, and the first part ended in March 2022. The manga returned in October 2022.
Hiroshi Harada adapted Maruo's 1984 erotic horror manga Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show (Shojo Tsubaki) into an anime film in 1992. The manga also inspired a live-action film adaptation in May 2017. Blast Books published the manga's one compiled volume in North America in 1993. Maruo won the "New Artist Prize" of the 13th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prizes in 2009, although he has been drawing manga professionally since 1980.
Last Gasp Publishing released Maruo's The Strange Tale of Panorama Island manga in English in 2013. The manga was nominated for the 2014 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards.
Maruo ended his Tomino no Jigoku (Tomino the Damned) manga in November 2018.
Source: Monthly Comic Beam November issue
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