In the band's early days, Suzuki often wore cloths like Nezumi-otoko, a rat man (a character of "Ge-Ge-Ge no Kitaro" by Shigeru Mizuki), which made them impressive.
Although rejected, the same idea was used in the smashhit manga Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata.
Shigeru Miyamoto | Shigeru Yoshida | Shigeru Ban | Shigeru Mizuki | Alisa Mizuki | Shigeru Sugiura | Shigeru Chiba | Shigeru Umebayashi | Shigeru Kayano | Shigeru Izumiya | Shigeru Iwasaki | Kyoko Mizuki |
Carey has said the series was born out of his love for Japanese and Korean films, such as My Beautiful Girl, Mari, and horror manga by creators such as Junji Ito, Hideshi Hino, and Shigeru Mizuki.