Yoshiharu Tsuge

Raised by his mother in difficult circumstances due to absence of his father who disappeared. After primary school he had to work. He didnt feel well in his adolescence and at the age of 14 he embarks as a stowaway on a cargo ship for the United States but is found by the coastal guards. At 16 he begins drawing for small rental libraries. This market a parallel market to the normal manga market disappeared in the following decade which left him without a job. Poverty he even sold his own blood led him to suicide attempts. He got a new chance on Garo magazine in 1965. From then on he presents his works real masterpieces in this magazine. Tsuge has always tried to break through the way of telling a story established by Tezukahttps://anilist.co/staff/96938. From 1966 to 1976 he travels through all of Japan visiting the small villages uninhabited regions and other places unknown to the public. This is where he gets a lot of ideas for new stories. Tsuge wrote three categories of stories: those who he called travel stories which came from his numerous voyages across Japan. Secondly stories coming from his dreams with a surreal atmosphere. Thirdly autobiographical stories published mainly in the seventies and eighties. Depression has halted Tsuges career several times and today he doesnt draw anymore. Even so his works are timeless and get reprinted since the sixties even though he isnt an author known to the masses. Critics are unanimously positive about his works and about his inestimable importance for the manga scene. Two of his works have been made into a movie. Hes considered to be a cultmangaka.