It is said that when the young Nagai submitted his tables to publishers, his mother secretly convinced publishers to reject them. Despite the fact that his mother opposed his manga aspirations, he submitted his works for publication, accumulating many rejections. With the help of his brother Yasutaka, he created his first manga works. Convinced that he would continue working on manga, he stopped attending school after three months and started living as a ronin. But this was the turning point in his life. As Nagai prepared for the task, he went to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with catarrh of the colon, and soon healed. He was determined to create one work of manga in what he thought were his last months. Aware of his own mortality, he wanted to leave some evidence that he had lived, by doing something that he liked as a child: working on manga. While passing his ronin year in a prep school in order to earn placement at Waseda University, he suffered a severe case of diarrhea for three weeks. He graduated from the Metropolitan Itabashi High School of Tokyo.
As a child, he was influenced by the work of Gustave Doré (specifically, a Japanese edition of the Divine Comedy) and Osamu Tezuka (Nagai's brother Yasutaka gave him a copy of Lost World). While he was still in his early childhood, he along with his mother and his four brothers moved to Tokyo after the death of his father. His family had just returned from Shanghai. He is the son of Yoshio and Fujiko Nagai (永井芳雄・冨士子), and the fourth of five brothers. Go Nagai was born on Septem-in the Ishikawa Prefecture city of Wajima.
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