Born in
Tokushima, Murao started his career as an assistant of
Kimio Yanagisawa, and made his official debut as a mangaka in 1972 with
Kappa Love Love Daisakusen (別冊少年ジャンプ), which was published in
Bessatsu Shōnen Jump. In 1974, he was awarded the
Tezuka Award for
Twin Banzai. From the 1990s, he focused on the
seinen genre and on more adult themed manga. His last work was the manga
Yami ni Daka reru Onna (闇に抱かれる女, "A Woman in the Dark"). ==References==