Hideshi Hino (born 1946) is a Japanese manga artist who was born in Qiqihar, Manchuria, and raised in Tokyo. He made his debut in 1967 after receiving recognition in the monthly newcomer competition held by the manga magazine COM, and subsequently published horror manga in magazines including Garo and Shonen Gaho. His work combines graphic images of disease, decay, and bodily transformation with sorrowful depictions of people rejected by their families and communities. In his representative work Zoroku no Kibyo, published in English as Zoroku’s Strange Disease, a villager whose body erupts in multicolored sores is isolated in a forest by relatives and neighbors who fear contagion. The story presents physical horror alongside the cruelty of discrimination and collective fear.