claims this made him lazy. After "Mokkiriya no Shōjo" appeared in Garos August issue that year, no more Tsuge stories appeared until "Yanagiya Shujin" was printed in the February/March issue of Garo in 1970. This was the last of the twenty-two stories that Tsuge contributed to Garo. Post-Garo (1970–1987) Tsuge did not have another story published until 1972. His stories from this point on broke with his Garo style, and tended to be autobiographical or erotic fantasies. Tsuge and Fujiwara were married in 1975, the same year their son was born. Tsuge was one of a number of cartoonists who found themselves unable to cope with the changes in the industry in the 1970s. The relatively free atmosphere of the 1950s and 1960s transitioned to one in which editors played a larger role, and schedules went from monthly to weekly. Retirement and later life Suffering physically and psychologically, Tsuge ceased making comics after 1987. His last published work of comics was in June 1987, in which the main character attempts suicide after a relationship breaks up. Tsuge withdrew into a private life with his family, where they lived by the Tama River in Tokyo. Tsuge has lived with his son since his wife's 1999 death from cancer. While he has produced no new works, he has cooperated with the filming and reprinting of his works. Personal life Tsuge's brother is also a cartoonist (author of Trash Market and of Slum Wolf, the latter published by the New York Review of Books in 2018). His birth name is spelled , but he signs his works , with identical pronunciation. Works In 1966, Tsuge suffered from another onset of depression and stopped drawing his own manga to be Shigeru Mizuki's assistant. Under Mizuki's influence, Tsuge's later publications feature highly detailed backgrounds and his trademark cartoonish-characters. Arguably one of Tsuge's more famous works, was published in Garo in 1968. Since the publication of in 1986, Tsuge has not drawn anymore manga. Gilles Laborderie in Indy Magazine notes that Tsuge "tries to create a pace through careful narrative techniques rather than through grand dramatic events" and compares his style to Yoshihiro Tatsumi's. His work has been collected many times in a variety of formats. In 1993–1994, Chikuma Shōbō published a nine-volume collection of Tsuge's work (including one volume of text) titled . In 2008–2009, the same publisher released a nine-volume softcover collection called .