Hideo Yamamoto


Hideo Yamamoto is a Japanese manga artist best known for the manga series Ichi the Killer and the series, Homunculus.
Recurring themes in his manga are crime, sexual deviations, and the human mind.

Biography

Hideo Yamamoto received the "Tetsuya Chiba Award", given to promising young manga creators in 1988. After resigning from the post of assistant of a popular seinen manga artist, Kenshi Hirokane, he made his professional debut by drawing SHEEP for Weekly Young Sunday in 1989.
Before creating Homunculus, Hideo Yamamoto actually lived as a homeless person for sometime in order to be able to credibly include the theme of homelessness in his work. Yamamoto is also interested in martial arts.

Works