*anese manga artistFor the *anese karateka, see Hideo Yamamoto (karateka).

Hideo Yamamoto (山本英夫, Yamamoto Hideo) is a *anese manga artist. He is best known as the creator of the manga series Ichi the Killer, which was adapted into a live-action film by Takashi Miike in 2001, and Homunculus.

Recurring themes in his manga are crime, sexual deviations, and the human mind.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Works
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Biography

Hideo Yamamoto received the "Tetsuya Chiba Award", given to promising young manga creators in 1988. After resigning from the post of *istant of a popular seinen manga artist, Kenshi Hirokane, he made his professional debut by drawing SHEEP (written by Masahiko Takasho) for Weekly Young Sunday in 1989.

Works

• Sheep, 1989
• Okama Report, 1989–1991
• Voyeur (Nozokiya), 1992
• Enjokousai Bo*etsu Undou (illustrated by Koshiba Tetsuya)
• Voyeurs, Inc. (Shin Nozokiya), 1993–1997
• Ichi the Killer, 1998–2001
• Homunculus, 2003–2011
• Yume Onna, 2013 (illustrated by Hiroya Oku)
• Hikari-Man, 2014–2020
• Adam and Eve, 2015–2016 (illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami)

References

External links

• Hideo Yamamoto in Media Arts Database (in *anese)
• Hideo Yamamoto at Anime News Network's encyclopedia