a feat achieved to brilliant effect in his 1965 horror manga Reptilia, which is famed for breaking the conventions of manga and spawned a boom in the production of horror manga in the 1970s.

At the same time, Umezz worked on creating shjo manga, defying genre conventions in his pioneering shjo horror, Reptilia ...

Influential manga artist Kazuo Umezu ... he wrote “Snake Girl,” which is the final story of a trilogy named “Reptilia” in the weekly magazine Shojo Friend published in 1966.