Marley is perhaps best known for the manga Old Boy (published under the Garon Tsuchiya pen name) with artist Nobuaki Minegishi, which ran in Futabasha’s Manga Action magazine from 1996 to 1998.
Marley drew manga under numerous pen names, including Garon Tsuchiya, Hijikata Yūmine, Dark Master, Tsubakiya no Minamoto, and Marginal.
Under Caribu Marley, he wrote the Ao no Senshi manga with late artist Jiro Taniguchi, and Hard & Loose with illustrator Kaiji Kawaguchi.
The official Twitter account of Kadokawa’s Monthly Comic Beam magazine announced on Monday that manga creator Caribu Marley passed away on January 7.