Murao debuted as a manga artist in 1972, having just started a new manga series Dorei Sensei last year
Kodoani.com – Manga author My Murao (real name Mikio Murai) passed away last Saturday, April 16. He is 69 years old. His family held a private funeral.
According to the source of the Asahi Shimbun, Murao has been battling an unspecified illness for the past three years.
Murao was born in Tokushima prefecture in 1952. He made his manga debut with the manga “Kappa Love Love Daisakusen” in Shueisha’s Bessatsu Shonen Jump magazine in 1972.
Murao’s Futago Banzai manga was honored in the Shueisha Tezuka Award in 1974. His other notable manga include Mune Sawagi no Hōkago, Binetsu My Love, Circle Game, Virgin Mama, Women, and S to M Murao was also the character designer for the shorts “Suburban Bedroom” and “The Theater of Life” for the 1986 Seishun Anime Zenshu anime anthology.
Murao launched the Dorei Sensei manga with artist Hiro Tomono in Nihon Bungeisha’s Manga Goraku Special magazine last year. The first volume of the manga was only published on March 19.
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