Otsuka Eiji

The manga takes place in the tumultuous Bakumatsu era, in the final years of the Edo period. The manga centers on a mysterious boy named Kudan, who can hear the voices in people's hearts, and who gets wrapped up in the waves of history.

How did Japanese manga originate? Explained in easy-to-understand manga form! When and how did Japanese manga develop in its own unique way? This is a subculture research comic that traces the roots of Japanese manga back to before World War II and its aftermath, making full use of a wealth of data. Let's learn about manga by reading manga!

This work is a substantial remake of Tokyo Jikan. In 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Tokyo. In 1989, the Shouwa era didn't end. When a doppelgänger appears and meets with his double, an explosion occurs which changes the world's history. Tokio is a mysterious person who travels in time in order to find and stop these doppelgängers. He then meets a female morgue worker and a detective. The three are called by Masaki Urashima, only to be told an aeroplane will explode in two days.

The Komatsugawa Incident, the wedding parade stone-throwing incident, and the stabbing of the Socialist Party chairman. Three crimes that occurred in Japan between the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s, and two literary figures representing the era who had a strange attraction to them. What were the boys trying to do in an era where there was a growing sense of confinement? The latest installment of Eiji Otsuka's controversial "Unlucky Young Men" series is finally here featuring Seiran Nishikawa, an up-and-coming writer who made a shocking debut with "Kodouron"!

Toko is a shy, awkward girl who hates her summer holidays. They just don't seem to end, and she's right. She is stuck on August 31st. Every day's the same as any other August 31st, except when a new character comes and changes how her whole day goes, and what she learns later on is not what she wanted to know…

Side story/prequel to "The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service." Matsuoka Kunio is a writer and anthropologist, but he's much more interested in playing detective. Joined by his long-suffering best friend, a very unorthodox priest, and a boy with the power to raise the dead, he investigates the occult mysteries and murders of early 1900s Japan.

A faceless ghost and a long-necked monster! A Meiji-era yokai tale! Meiji Japan. A struggling novelist, Kumohachi, and an equally unsuccessful illustrator, Mujina, encounter a series of yokai incidents! A yokai mystery from the hit horror comic "Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service," brought to you by Eiji Otsuka and Minesui Yamazaki!!

Yakumo Koizumi, who changed his name to Lafcadio Hearn and became a naturalized Japanese citizen, met Saburo Koga, a government official, in a village he visited with his disciple Yaichi Aizu , and witnessed the main exorcism of the village's secret festival, Natsukoshi, and was transported to the \`\`Yūkai''. I got into it. Since then, Yakumo has been involved in strange incidents.

Tokyo, 1968: between political turmoil and student riots N, a man with a criminal past, casually meets T, a young comedian intent on making a career in the film industry. T wants to shoot "Unlucky Young Men", a chronicle of a disillusioned Japanese youth ready to do anything to realize their dreams; to finance the film, the two begin to plan attacking a van carrying 300 million yen...

Note: Series ran in Comic Shin Genjitsu Vol. 1 to Vol. 6 before being cancelled along with the termination of the magazine's publication. Chapters 5 and 6 were never printed outside of their initial magazine release.

Postwar Japan boasts of its prosperity. However, behind the scenes, unexplainable crimes continue to occur!　Masaki Urashima and other members of the "Historical Research Institute," who possess various supernatural powers that transcend time, travel through time and space in pursuit of these mysterious criminals! NOTE: The author hasn't updated the series in years and while it is on hiatus, it is mostly likely discontinued with its currently ongoing series serving as a remake, Tokyo Alternative, according to sources.

Meet the extended staff of JDC, quite possibly the oddest detective agency ever formed, which includes a strange boy with a circle tattooed around one eye, a man missing his mouth, another man in a ball-gag, a woman in a cartoon mask, a socialite… and yet they all come together to solve murders that ordinary police cannot seem to grasp, and there’s a reason for that… The Doujinshi & Manga Lexicon Vol. 1 Vol. 2 Vol. 3 Vol. 4 Vol. 5 Vol. 6

A masterpiece of horror manga, featuring the adorable yet terrifying world of yokai woven by the faceless "Mujina" and the third-rate horror story writer "Kumohachi," is now available in book form for the first time!

Your body is their business! Five young students at a Buddhist university, three guys and two girls, find little call for their job skills in today's Tokyo... among the living, that is! But all that stuff in college they were told would never pay off — you know, channeling, dowsing, ESP — gives them a direct line to the dead... the dead who are still trapped in their corpses and can't move on to the next reincarnation. The five form the Kurosagi ("Black Heron", their ominous bird logo) Corpse Delivery Service: whether suicide, murder, accident, or illness, they'll carry your body wherever it needs to go to free your soul! The kids from Kurosagi can smell a customer a mile away — it's a good thing one of the girls majored in embalming!

After a long absence, the young shaman Samizo Kohei returns from the dead with a prophecy of the apocalypse. Or part of him returns, at least - most of his body has been replaced with the transplanted body parts of his former friends, all retaining their distinctive personalities. He returns to his home in Shinjuku, where he works as a psychic surgeon in an unlicensed clinic. Here he serves as the unofficial guardian of the Shinjuku underground, solving paranormal murder mysteries, with the assistance of an assortment of other bizarre mystics and semi-human allies. Meanwhile, the others wonder exactly what Kohei has become, and whether he has returned to prevent the apocalypse, or to initiate it.

The Japanese archipelago was ruled by someone and transformed into an empire called the "Great Japan Commander-in-Chief Empire". The power of the empire was not limited to the Japanese archipelago, but its threat was about to spread to the continent. An opponent to that power arose in the Republic of Manchukuo. that name as well! "Chodenji Gakuen" Tesla Memorial Republic High School Girls' High School (commonly known as Chodenji Gakuen), ostensibly a school that trains the brides of imperial soldiers, but in fact it is an anti-imperialist resistance organization that fights to protect Manchukuo from the threat of the empire. was. Armed with the anti-imperial symbol "Veliki", a gigantic automatic engine developed by the king of inventors, Dr. Tesla, he boldly confronts the empire.

Summer 1936, Tokyo . Dr. Nobuo Orikuchi , a folklorist , stumbles into the old bookstore \`\`Yasakado'' and discovers a fake book in which his name has been borrowed without permission . The story contains the unbelievable past of the masked store owner, Heihachiro Kijima . Since then, Dr. Orikuchi has become involved in strange incidents.

The main character is a detective, Kazuhiko Amamiya, suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder (a.k.a. Dissociative Identity Disorder). Starting out as a violent detective series with a twist (the twist being the variant personalities that take over Detective Amamiya at various intervals), the series evolves into an exceptionally complex and involved sci-fi conspiracy story.

As the Japanese folklore founded by Kunio Yanagita was involved in the formation of the Empire of Japan, the phantom indigenous people of Japan, the \`\`Mountain People,'' proposed by Yanagida, contradicted the descent of the descendants of the emperor, who is a living god, and the one lineage of all generations . It shouldn't have happened.'' Yanagida shuts down the mountain man theory. At the same time, he joins the Japanese Imperial Army in hunting mountain men. A few years later, a girl who is said to have mountain man blood is seen in Tokyo. Yanagita orders her excommunicated disciple, Hyodo Kitagami, to investigate, but...

Eiji Otsuka and Sho-u Tajima at it again, Eiji in a much more minor role this time, however. In any case, this a relatively older and short comedy series (4 volumes) that should be a fun break from their usual mayhem with MPD (Multiple Personality/Dissociative Identity Disorder). In 1994, this manga was published as a whole under title "BROTHERS High School".

MADARA tells the story of an apprentice blacksmith in a rural village who gets by using artificial limbs created by his adoptive father. But when a chance encounter with the demon Moki reveals Madara's true destiny, he's catapulted into a mythic quest! His real father, the evil despot Miroku, feared long ago that Madara was destined to kill him and rule in his place. After Madara was born with tremendous powers, his body was cut up, and the parts divided amongst eight evil generals. Now Madara, with the help of a band of freedom fighters and a magical sword, sets out to retrieve his body parts and defeat his brothers, who covet the throne. As he fights his way across the world, he contemplates the prophecy: How will he wrest control of the kingdom from his father and win the people their freedom?