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
External links
The artist's website
Honolulu Museum of Art
Artist Feature on MEDIUM by Echotokki
Footnotes
Manga artists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)