Ryou Kurashina

Official Websitehttp://www.rkurashina.com/ Ryou Kurashina is a Japanese former comic artist and author who dropped out of Meiji University. Maakou and Jibiki Kazuyahttps://anilist.co/staff/140744/JibikiKazuya were once his assistants. He specializes in stories about Mizu shoubai euphemism for the nighttime entertainment business or as he calls it Neongai mono. He is a big name in this field and is said to be the founder of Neon Gekiga. He used to write gekiga under the name Tsukasa Kei also written original manga under the name Takashi Tsukasa. In addition to writing original manga he also runs the editorial production companies Free Hand and Office Kei under his real name Keiji Ooba and is contracted by publishers to produce entire magazines or parts of them. In 1971 he made his debut as a manga artist under the name Takashi Tsukasa. He worked mainly for youth magazines and produced a number of hit works mainly bunkara stories and has created many longselling worksrepresentative works include Yabou no Mure Aizu Otoko Uta Takeda Miken Hoshi and Shouwa Baka Hayashihttps://anilist.co/staff/140744/JibikiKazuya. In particular Yabou no Mure is famous as a superlong hit that ran for 28 volumes. More than 40 of his works have been published in tankobon form. However he gradually began to feel stalled as a comic book author and decided to abandon writing. As a result he changed his name to Ryo Kurashina and restarted his career as a fulltime cartoonist. His first original work was the Akujo no Kagami series with Issaku Wake. Many of his original works are Neon Gekiga with female protagonists and his representative works include Joteihttps://anilist.co/manga/58445/Jotei/ Jououhttps://anilist.co/manga/33413/Jouou and Yaouhttps://anilist.co/manga/42587/Yaou which were made into TV dramas. He also writes not only neon stories but also economic stories such as DAWNhttps://anilist.co/manga/140166/Dawn and Zenibana maiko stories such as Jotei Hanamai and Hanna ritohttps://anilist.co/manga/121451/Hannarito and entertainment stories such as Joyuu and Ai Ningyo.