Miou Takaya

Takaya Miou (, Takaya Miō) is a Japanese manga artist born in Nagoya, Japan. Her career began in 1991, with the self-publication of Sei Shojo Yugi. Her art blends surrealism, eroticism, fantasy, horror, as seen in the image of an almost nude disemboweled young man. She had her first solo gallery exhibition in 2016 at the Honolulu Museum of Art under the title, Visions of Gothic Angels: Japanese Manga by Takaya Miou. Her publications include:

Endorphins, the Substance of Pleasure (決楽物質エンドルフィン), 1993 King of Mechanics (機械仕掛けの王様, Rex ex machina), 1993 The Great Frog Michael (御蛙), 1994 Her, 1995 Ribs of the Sky (空の肋骨), 1997 The Mathematical Structure of Beautiful Faces (美貌方程式), 1997 Holy Boys and Other Flightless Angels (無翼天使類聖少年科), 1998 The Fountain of Death (死の泉), 1998 Eroticize Intelligence, 1999 Map of Sacred Pain (聖慯図), 2001 The Madness of Heaven (天国狂), 2001 Uranomania, 2003 Demon Child in Hell (魔童地獄編), 2003 Troubled Lord (欠けた王様), 2003 Rosette, 2004 Child Recipe Book, 2004 A Billion Cubes of the Species (体種十億立方体), 2005 Gabriel and Beelzebub (ガブリエルと蠅の王), 2006 From Off My Bones, 2007 The Lunacy Act (月狂条列), 2007 Endorphins, the Substance of Pleasure, Vol. 1 (決楽物質エンドルフィン), 2014 Rose Crown (薔薇ノ冠), 2014 Endorphins, the Substance of Pleasure, Vol. 2 (決楽物質エンドルフィン), 2015 Alexithymia (アレキシサイミア), 2015