Takaya Miou

In this Japanese name, the surname is Takaya.

Frame from Ribs of the Sky: Cooper's Bad Boys by Takaya Miou, 1997

Takaya Miou (高屋たかや 未央みお, 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 (決けつ楽らく物質ぶっしつエンドルフィン), 1993
• King of Mechanics (機械きかい仕掛しかけの王様おうさま, Rex ex machina), 1993
• The Great Frog Michael (御ご蛙かえる), 1994
• Her, 1995
• Ribs of the Sky (空そらの肋骨あばらぼね), 1997
• The Mathematical Structure of Beautiful Faces (美貌びぼう方程式ほうていしき), 1997
• Holy Boys and Other Flightless Angels (無む翼つばさ天使てんし類るい聖せい少年しょうねん科か), 1998
• The Fountain of Death (死しの泉いずみ), 1998
• Eroticize Intelligence, 1999
• Map of Sacred Pain (聖せい慯図), 2001
• The Madness of Heaven (天国てんごく狂きょう), 2001
• Uranomania, 2003
• Demon Child in Hell (魔ま童わらわ地獄じごく編へん), 2003
• Troubled Lord (欠かけた王様おうさま), 2003
• Rosette, 2004
• Child Recipe Book, 2004
• A Billion Cubes of the Species (体からだ種しゅ十じゅう億おく立方体りっぽうたい), 2005
• Gabriel and Beelzebub (ガブリエルと蠅はえの王おう), 2006
• From Off My Bones, 2007
• The Lunacy Act (月つき狂きょう条じょう列れつ), 2007
• Endorphins, the Substance of Pleasure, Vol. 1 (決けつ楽らく物質ぶっしつエンドルフィン), 2014
• Rose Crown (薔薇ばらノ冠かんむり), 2014
• Endorphins, the Substance of Pleasure, Vol. 2 (決けつ楽らく物質ぶっしつエンドルフィン), 2015
• Alexithymia (アレキシサイミア), 2015

External links

• The artist's website
• Honolulu Museum of Art
• Artist Feature on MEDIUM by Echotokki