Kazuo Umezu or Kazuo Umezz is a Japanese manga artist, musician and actor.
14 Facts About Kazuo Umezu
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Kazuo Umezu is among the most famous authors of horror manga and has been vital for its development since the 1960s.
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Kazuo Umezu's mother motivated him to draw when he was seven years old.
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Kazuo Umezu was inspired to start drawing manga by reading Osamu Tezuka's Shin Takarajima in fifth grade.
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Kazuo Umezu was part of a drawing circle with others called "Kaiman Club".
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Kazuo Umezu's specialty was to include paranormal elements in his stories.
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Kazuo Umezu became a well established author and was at times working at up to five serials at the same time.
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In 1975, Umezu started becoming a public figure apart from creating manga.
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Kazuo Umezu recorded songs based on his horror manga and released them as the solo album Yami no Album.
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Kazuo Umezu then became even more of a public figure, appearing regularly on TV in a red and white striped shirt.
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Kazuo Umezu was famous for the architecture of his candy-striped home in Kichijoji, inspired by his Makoto-chan series.
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Kazuo Umezu's works inspired a new generation of horror manga artists.
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Kazuo Umezu's reputation gave him the nickname "god of horror manga" in Japanese media.
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Kazuo Umezu regularly received complaint letters from parents in the beginning of his career due to his horror visuals and editors of magazines would ask him to scale down the violence in his imagery.