Suehiro Maruo RANPO PANORAMA*
Suehiro Maruo, Japan's manga master of ero-guro, meets Rampo Edogawa (1894-1965), the genre's literary forefather, in this collection of illicit and blood curdling art work. RANPO PANORAMA represents a remarkable convergence of Japanese artistic mastery, bringing together Suehiro Maruo, the acclaimed manga master of ero-guro, with the literary legacy of Edogawa Ranpo, the founding father of the genre. This extraordinary collection features over fifty works that showcase Maruo's haunting visual interpretations of Ranpo's Taisho-era tales of terror, presented in both striking black and white illustrations and vivid full-color masterpieces. The collaboration creates a unique artistic dialogue across decades, uniting two masters who shared a fascination with humanity's darkest psychological depths. By opening his private archives for this comprehensive retrospective, Maruo has created something far beyond a typical art book—this volume serves simultaneously as cultural documentation,