Gou Tanabe Explained

Gou Tanabe
Native Name:	田邊剛
Native Name Lang:	ja
Birth Date:	1975
Birth Place:	Tokyo
Nationality:	Japanese
Occupation:	Manga artist
Known For:	Adaptation of Lovecraft's work
Awards:	^[1]

is a Japanese manga artist who is especially known for his adaptations of literary works by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. His manga have been translated into English, French, German, Spanish and Italian.

Career

In the Q4 2005, in the midst of non productive period, he was exploring new ideas for "stories about monsters with no positive outcome". His publisher introduced him to the Cthulhu Mythos by Howard Phillips Lovecraft. In a subsequent interview with CNews2, Tanabe said how he was impressed by characters who "lose all hope and appetite for life. It is this common thread in Lovecraft's stories that particularly struck me".^[2]

In 2007, he drew the romantic drama in the magazine Comic Beam, published in the same year by Enterbrain, as well as, loosely adapted from H. P. Lovecraft's short story.

In 2012, he drew an adaptation of Mr. Nobody in Monthly Comic Ryū and it was also subsequently published in a three bound volumes by publisher Tokuma Shoten.^[3]

In 2015, he drew Lovecraft's in Comic Beam, which was published by Enterbrain.

In 2016, Enterbrain published further Lovecraft's adaptations of and .

In 2018, he drew Lovecraft's, followed by in 2019.

On March 12, 2021, he completed Lovecraft's .^[4]

Bibliography

Adaptations of Lovecraft's works

• Book: The Outsider. アウトサイダー . . 2007 . 978-4757735804 . ja. Stories by other authors: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov´s "The House with the Mezzanine", Maxim Gorky´s "Twenty-six Men and a Girl", Marley Caribu´s "A Barnstormer on Pont-Neuf", Sanyutei Encho´s "Kasane Souetsu Goroshi" and Gou Tanabe´s "Ju-ga"
• Book: The Hound and Other Stories. 魔犬 ラヴクラフト. . 2014 . 978-4047299115 . ja. Also adapted: "The Temple" and "The Nameless City"
  Translated in English by Dark Horse Manga in 2017; 978-1-50670-312-1
• Book: The Color Out of Space . 異世界の色彩 . . 2015 . 9784047308046 . ja.
• Book: The Haunter of the Dark . 闇に這う者 . . 2016 . 978-4047308381. ja. Also adapted: "Dagon"
• Book: At the Mountains of Madness . 狂気の山脈にて . . 2016 . 978-4047283169 . ja. 4 Volumes
  Translated in English by Dark Horse Manga in 2019 in 2 Volumes; 978-1-50671-022-8
• Book: The Shadow Out of Time . 時を超える影. . 2018 . 978-4047354838 . ja.
• Book: The Call of Cthulhu . クトゥルフの呼び声 . . 2019 . 978-4047358539 . ja.
  To be translated in English by Dark Horse Manga in October 2024; 978-1-50674-140-6
• Book: The Shadow Over Innsmouth . インスマウスの影 . . 2020 . 978-4047366602 . ja. 2 Volumes
  Translated in English by Dark Horse Manga in 2023; 978-1-50673-603-7
• Book: ダニッチの怪. The Dunwich Horror . . 2021 . 978-4047374003 . ja. 3 Volumes
• Book: The Cats of Ulthar and Other Stories . ウルタールの猫 . . 2023 . 978-4047379077 . ja. Also adapted: "Celephaïs" and "The Other Gods"
• Book: Randolph Carter's Story . ランドルフ・カーターの物語 . . 2024 . ja.

Series

• Based on the rakugo horror story Ghosts of Kasane Swamp by Sanyutei Encho.
  • Volume 1, 2007
  • Volume 2, 2007
    • Volume 1, 2011
• Mr. Nobody
  • Volume 1, 2012
  • Volume 2, 2013
  • Volume 3, 2014
• Based on Lafcadio Hearn's "The Story of O-Tei", Franz Kafka´s "A Hunger Artist", Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Spring" and 3 original stories by Marley Caribu: "Fortune Teller Warika", "Hanging "tand" and "Competition"
  • Volume 1, 2015

See also

• Cthulhu Mythos in popular culture

Notes and References

1. Web site: Angoulême 2020 : le Fauve d'or est attribué à "Révolution", le Prix du Public France Télévisions à "Saison des roses". 2020-02-01. France Info.
2. Web site: L'appel de Cthulhu: le mangaka Gou Tanabe nous raconte sa vision de Lovecraft . 2020-09-17 . . Cailleaud . Nicolas.
3. Web site: Mr. Nobody . 2020-11-29 . Manga Sanctuary.
4. Web site: Manga Forever . 2023-01-19 . 2021-03-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210304101545/https://www.mangaforever.net/704450/gou-tanabe-conclude-the-shadow-over-innsmouth . dead .