In what year was the author of the Japanese manga "Gyo" born?
Junji Ito Junji Ito (伊藤 潤二 , Itō Junji , born July 31, 1963) is a Japanese horror manga artist. Some of his most notable works include "Tomie", a series chronicling an immortal girl who drives her stricken admirers to madness, "Uzumaki", a three-volume series about a town obsessed with spirals, and "Gyo", a two-volume story where fish are controlled by a strain of sentient bacteria called "the death stench." His other works are "Itou Junji Kyoufu Manga Collection", a collection of different short stories including a series of stories named "Souchi's Journal of Delights", and "Itou Junji No Neko Nikki: Yon and Mu", a light-hearted, but still terrifying, story about moving in a new house with his cats.
Mitsuyoshi Sonoda Mitsuyoshi Sonoda (園田 光慶 , Sonoda Mitsuyoshi , December 7, 1940 – July 1997) was a Japanese manga artist. During the time in which manga was often distributed through lending libraries, Sonoda used the pen name Hidekazu Arikawa (ありかわ 栄一 , Arikawa Hidekazu ) .