Saiko Kaburagi


Saiko Kaburagi is a Japanese mangaka duo composed of writer Baku Kaburagi and illustrator Natsuki Hiura. They debuted in the December 1986 issue of the shōjo horror manga magazine Solitaire with the oneshot The Portrait of Dionne Colbert. They were one of the most notable and popular authors of splatter manga alongside Rei Mikamoto and Ochazukenori.

Biography

Baku Kaburagi was born on May, 30th and Natsuki Hiura on December 5th, both have kept their birth year and most other biographical information private.
They started their career in manga on December 1986 in the horror magazine Solitaire, through the late 80s and early 90s they also published manga in Horror House, Anata no Kyoufu Taiken and Pandora. In the 90s they serialized the Mushiya Series in Horror M, Lily & Rara and Horror Family Akai-san Ka in Suspense & Horror. Their manga was also featured in Somasha's All Kaidan and Houbunsha's Horror Panic.
Their works published in Somasha's line of horror manga Black Bunko include afterwords by other artists describing and complimenting the duo's works; in Kaibou, it is written by Ochazukenori, he wrote that the bugs drawn by Kaburagi Saiko cause a reaction of disgust, in Freak, it is written by Reiko Kitagawa, and describes the duo's style as splatter. Baku Kaburagi wrote the afterword of Mori Kanda's Honto ni Atta Osoroshii Hanashi.
They became active in manga again in the late 2010s in Bunkasha's josei magazine Story na Onna-tachi.

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