禁じられた遊び

by Usamaru Furuya, 古屋兎丸

古屋兎丸、初期衝動。

「これらの作品のおかげで、今の自分があります」(古屋)
デビューから20年を数えた著者が、自身にとって重要な初期作品を厳選。
詳細な解題を書き下ろし再編した、アーリー・ベスト。
著者15歳(中学3年生)当時の同人誌作品も初公開!


「これらの短編の後『Marieの奏でる音楽』『πーパイー』『ライチ☆光クラブ』『インノサン少年十字軍』『人間失格』『帝一の國』『女子高生に殺されたい』等の中編、長編へと移行していきましたが、それも当時の葛藤が生んだものであるということを、未熟さも含めて今の若い読者に伝えたく、この本を出すことにしました」──古屋兎丸

258 pages, Comic

Published October 17, 2015

About the author

Usamaru Furuya (古屋兎丸) is a Japanese manga creator from Tokyo. His production covers a variety of art styles and genres, such as horror, humour, slice-of-life, erotica, sci-fi, always with a personal surrealistic touch. Society oppression and the human condition are common themes in his body of work.
Furuya showed an interest in comics making since elementary school. He graduated from Tama Art University, where he had studied sculpture and oil painting.
His manga career started in the alternative magazine 'Garo', in which he published a series of one-page comics called Palepoli (1994-1995). He then worked on Short Cuts (1996-1999), a gag manga serialised in the mainstream magazine 'Weekly Young Sunday'. Other short stories from the same period were collected in the books Garden (2000) and Plastic Girl (2000).
Over the years Furuya has created work for a number of manga magazines, underground and mainstream. Among his series available in one or more Western languages are: the dystopian The Music of Marie (2000-2001); the surreal horror Lychee Light Club (2005-2006), loosely based on a play by Norimizu Ameya; the post-apocalyptic 51 Ways to Save Her (2006-2007); Genkaku Picasso (2008-2010); No Longer Human (2009-2011), adaptation of a novel by Osamu Dazai; Amane Gymnasium (2017-2020).