Yoshikazu Ebisu

Biography

Yoshikazu Ebisu, born October 21, 1947, in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, is a Japanese manga artist and actor known for his darkly surreal works in the gekiga genre. His childhood experiences, including the trauma of post-World War II Japan and atomic weapons, influenced his early manga style, which shifted from giant robots to human-centric stories. Ebisu's work was featured in avant-garde manga magazine Garo upon its debut in 1973.