# Hiroya Oku
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hiroya oku (奥 浩哉, Oku Hiroya, born September 16, 1967) is a Japanese manga artist who is the creator of Gantz, Hen and Inuyashiki, the first two of which have been serialized in Weekly Young Jump. Originally influenced by Katsuhiro Otomo and Ryoichi Ikegami, his manga often contain explicit violence, sexual depictions, and matters that are considered taboo by the public, and he is known as a pioneer in the use of digital processing for manga backgrounds.
His debut manga Hen was a runner-up in the 1988 Young Jump Youth Manga Awards.
77 - GANTZ (ft. Ryan Jackson)
Today we have Ryan from the Mutual Aberration Society podcast (Patreon here) on to talk Hiroya Oku's GANTZ. We go from its beginning up through its legendary "mass shooting" arc.
We discuss:
Getting canceled by aliens, old-school homophobia, Oku’s love of boobs, Larry Clark making The Matrix, the…
101 - The Tragedy of Gantz (ft. Zach Langley Chi-Chi)
Today on the show, we're talking Hiroya Oku's 37-volume manga Gantz, which ran from 2000-2013. Joining us is our favorite expat drag queen in Japan, author and airwave artist Zach Langley Chi-Chi of I'm So Popular. We dive into this libidinal freestyle epic and also dig into revisiting the artist's…
15 - Surviving Battle Royale
Welcome to Lyfeblerd, a podcast all about manga, manhwa, light novels and other types of comic books. I'm your host, Cryptte, and today we're diving into the intense and thought-provoking seinen manga series, Battle Royale.
Originally written by Koushun Takami in 1996, it went unpublished until 199…
03 - All You Need Is Kill
Wild, adrenaline fueled action, mechanical suits of armour, weird creatures, time loops and even more science fiction. All You Need Is Kill has it all. Join Cryptte on the latest episode of Lyfeblerd as he leaps headfirst into this seinen tale. Will it make it into your reading list or drag you int…
Why Did You Read That ep 47
In this bookstravaganza, this bookfest, this bookapalooza, this outdoor music festival of books that is totally a better deal than Fyre or Fyre 2, Peter brought:
Choose Your Own Adventure Books https://bit.ly/hpldcyoa
Gantz by Hiroya Oku https://www.hoopladigital.com/comic/gantz-omnibus-vol-1-hir…
#118: Underrated Mangaka: Hiroya Oku
This episode we kick off 2026 by talking about the manga writer Hiroya Oku
Episode 111 - Thunder 3 by Yuki Ikeda
After borrowing a disk from their teacher that promised to open a rift between dimensions, the small three (aka Pyontaro Tezuka, Hiroshi Ochanomizu and Tsubame Azuma) find themselves in crisis when Pyon's little sister, Futaba crawls through the screen into this parallel world! But when they discov…
[PREVIEW] 101 - The Tragedy of Gantz (ft. Zach Langley Chi-Chi)
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Today on the show, we're talking Hiroya Oku's 37-volume manga Gantz, which ran from 2000-2013. Joining us is our favorite expat drag queen in Japan, author and airwave artist Zach Langley Chi-Chi of I'm So Popular. We dive into this libidinal freestyle epic and also dig into revisiting the artist's…
[PREVIEW] 77 - GANTZ Part 1: Vols. 1-11 (ft. Ryan Jackson)
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Today we have Ryan from the Mutual Aberration Society podcast (Patreon here) on to talk Hiroya Oku's GANTZ. We go from its beginning up through its legendary "mass shooting" arc.We discuss:Getting canceled by aliens, old-school homophobia, Oku’s love of boobs, Larry Clark making The Matrix, the rul…
TheOASG Podcast Episode 250: Weird News is Back With a Vengeance
Show Notes
0:00: Justin and Helen explain what they’ve been up to for the past two weeks, though Justin brings up an anime he watched after checking out the GTO live action series — the first Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle film. Meanwhile Helen talks about something current (The World is …
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