Ryou Kurashina

[Official Website](http://www.r-kurashina.com/) Ryou Kurashina is a Japanese former comic artist and author who dropped out of Meiji University. Maakou and [Jibiki Kazuya](https://anilist.co/staff/140744/Jibiki-Kazuya) were once his assistants. He specializes in stories about Mizu shoubai, _euphemism for the night-time entertainment business_ (or, as he calls it, "Neon-gai 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 long-selling works,(representative works include "__Yabou no Mure__," "__Aizu Otoko Uta__," "__Takeda Miken Hoshi__," and "[Shouwa Baka Hayashi](https://anilist.co/staff/140744/Jibiki-Kazuya)"). In particular, "Yabou no Mure" is famous as a super-long 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 full-time 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 "[Jotei](https://anilist.co/manga/58445/Jotei/)", "[Jouou](https://anilist.co/manga/33413/Jouou)," and "[Yaou](https://anilist.co/manga/42587/Yaou)", which were made into TV dramas. He also writes not only neon stories but also economic stories such as "[DAWN](https://anilist.co/manga/140166/Dawn)" and "Zenibana", maiko stories such as "Jotei Hanamai" and "[Hanna rito](https://anilist.co/manga/121451/Hannari-to)", and entertainment stories such as "__Joyuu__" and "__Ai Ningyo__".