Paru Itagaki

I went into Beastars expecting a gimmick. Carnivores and herbivores attending the same high school sounds like a one-joke premise. What Paru Itagaki actually wrote is one of the most uncomfortable things I have read in manga, because the animal setting lets her put appetite and desire in the same body and refuse to separate them. The fur is not a costume for cuteness. It is a way of talking about the parts of human wanting that we normally agree not to look at. She was born in Tokyo in 1993 and studied at Musashino Art University, and she is the daughter of Keisuke Itagaki, whose Baki is about as famous as fighting manga gets in Japan. That inheritance strikes me as a trap more than a gift. Resemble him and you are derivative; diverge and you are the disappointing child. She simply went somewhere he had never been, won a shelf of awards for it, and has since moved on to Sanda. The surname stopped being the story a long time ago.

Name (English)

Paru Itagaki

Name (Japanese)

板垣巴留

Reading

いたがき ぱる

Born

September 9, 1993 (age 32)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Rooster

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Occupation

mangaka / illustrator / penciller / writer

University

Musashino Art University

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paru%20Itagaki
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%BF%E5%9E%A3%E5%B7%B4%E7%95%99
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Tags

• Tokyo
• mangaka
• illustrator
• penciller

Last updated

2026-08-07

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