Rei Hiroe

Rei Hiroe (born 5 December 1972) is a Japanese manga artist, best known for the manga Black Lagoon, which began in 2002 and was adapted as an anime series from 2006 to 2011 with Hiroe credited as original creator. When he works on doujin comics he uses the name Red Bear. His earlier manga, including Hisuikyo Kitan, Shook Up! and Phantom Bullet, were first published by Kadokawa Shoten in the 1990s but none were complete, so he moved to Shogakukan in the early 2000s, where those works were republished and re-released. He also supplied the original story, concept and character designs for the anime Re:Creators in 2017, illustrated the Black Lagoon light novels, and began the manga 341 Sentodan in 2019.