Manga creator Mio Murao (real name Mikio Murai) passed away last Saturday, April 16.
He made his manga creator debut with the “Kappa Love Love Daisakusen” manga in Shueisha’s Bessatsu Shonen Jump magazine in 1972.
Murao launched the Dorei Sensei manga with artist Hiro Tomono in Nihon Bungeisha’s Manga Goraku Special magazine last year.
According to the Asahi Shimbun’s source, Murao had been fighting an unspecified illness for the past three years.
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