is the pen name

Pen name

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 of , born 1978. He is a Japanese

Japanese people

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 writer, mostly of horror

Horror fiction

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 short stories

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, as well as a filmmaker. He made his debut with Summer, Fireworks and My Corpse while still in high school

High school

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. Major works include the novel Goth, which was adapted into a comic

Manga

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 and a feature film

Feature film

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 (Goth: Love of Death) and the Zoo short story collections which were also adapted into a feature film.

Tokyopop

Tokyopop

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 has published English-language translations of his short story collection Calling You

Calling You (anthology)

is a Japanese fictional short story collection written by Otsu-ichi and published on May 31, 2001 by Kadokawa Shoten. All three stories in Calling You are stories focused on unusual friendships with a supernatural twist. In December 2003, a manga adaptation written and illustrated by Setsuri...

, the novel Goth and the comic adaptations of both. Another short story, F-Sensei's Pocket, appears in the English edition of the literary magazine

Literary magazine

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 Faust

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.

Books

• Summer, Fireworks and My Corpse (Shueisha:ISBN 4087030520, Shueisha bunko:ISBN 4087471985)
  • Summer, Fireworks and My Corpse
  • Yuko
• Tentei Yōko (Shueisha: ISBN 4087030709, Shueisha bunko: ISBN 4087473422)
  • A Masked Ball - Or, the appearance and disappearance of the bathroom smoker
  • Tentei Yōko
• Ishi no Me (Shueisha: ISBN 4087020134)/Heimen Inu (Shueisha Bunko:ISBN 4087475905)
  • Ishi no Me
  • Hajime
  • Blue
  • Heimen Inu
• Ankoku Dowa (Shueisha: ISBN 4087020142, Shueisha Bunko: ISBN 4087476952)
• Shinizokonai no Ao (Gentosha Bunko: ISBN 4344401638)
• Kurai tokoro de machiawase (Gentosha Bunko：ISBN 4344402146)
• Goth Wristcut Case(Kadokawa Shoten:ISBN 4048733907) - the winner of the 3rd Honkaku Mystery Grand Prize
  Honkaku Mystery Grand Prize
  The are presented every year by the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan. They honor the best in honkaku mystery fiction and critical work published in the previous year.- Honkaku Mystery Grand Prize for Best Novel winners :...
  
  
  • Goth
  • Wristcut
  • Dog
  • Twins
  • Grave
  • Voice
• Goth Wristcut Case Yoru no Sho (Kadokawa Bunko: ISBN 4044253048)
  • Goth
  • Dog
  • Twins
• Goth Wristcut Case Boku no Sho (Kadokawa Bunko: ISBN 4044253056)
  • Wristcut
  • Grave
  • Voice
• Shisso Holiday (Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko: ISBN 4044253013)
  • Happiness is a Warm Kitty
  • Shisso Holiday
• Calling You (Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko: ISBN 4044253021)
  • Calling You
  • Kiz/Kids
  • Flower Song
• Samishisa no Shuhasū(Kadokawa Sneaker Bunko: ISBN 404425303X)
  • Mirai Yoho Ashita, Harereba ii
  • Te o Nigiru dorobo no Monogatari
  • Film no naka no Shojo
  • Ushinawareta Monogatari
• Zoo(Shueisha: ISBN 4087745341
  • Kazari to Yoko
  • Ketsueki wo Sagase!
  • Hidamari no Shi
  • So-far
  • Tsumetai Mori no Shiroi Ie
  • Closet
  • Kami no Kotoba
  • Zoo
  • Seven Rooms
  • Ochiru hikoki no Naka de
• Zoo 1 (Shueisha Bunko: ISBN 4087460371)
  • Kazari to Yoko
  • Seven Rooms
  • So-far
  • Hidamari no Shi
  • Zoo
• Zoo2 (Shueisha Bunko: ISBN 408746038X)
  • Ketsueki wo Sagase!
  • Tsumetai Mori no Shiroi Ie
  • Closet
  • Kami no Kotoba
  • Ochiru Hikoki no Naka de
  • Mukashi Yuhi no Kōen de
    • Not included in the original edition of Zoo—originally appeared on Otsu-Ichi's now defunct website.
• Kutsushita wo Kakuse! (Koubunsha: ISBN 433492414X)
  • So far, his only picture book
• Ushinawareru Monogatari (Kadokawa Shoten: ISBN 4048735004, Kadokawa Bunko: ISBN 4044253064)
  • Calling You
  • Ushinawareru Monogatari
  • Kiz/Kids
  • Te wo Nigiru Dorobo no Monogatari
  • Happiness is a Warm Kitty
  • Maria no Yubi
  • Boku no Kashikoi Pantsu-kun
    • Only in bunko edition:
  • Usokano
• Kosei Monokagatari (Gentosha: ISBN 4344006550)
  • Collection of essays written for the web
• Toruko Nikki ~ Dame Ningen Sakka Trio no Datsuryoku Tabi Nikki~ (Shueisha: ISBN 4087804240)
  • Serialized on the web, heavily revised; in tandem with Shinji Sadakane and Makoto Matsubara.
• Gun and Chocolate (Kodansha Mystery Land: ISBN 406270580X)

Uncollected Stories

• Ugoku Omocha (Shosetsu Subaru)
• Tsuma no Denwa (Shosetsu Subaru)
• Kamikakushi (Shosetsu Subaru
• Shufuku sareta Mizu (Da Vinci)
• F-Sensei no Pocket (Faust)
• Kodomo ha Tōku ni Itta (Faust)
• Dare ni mo Tsuzukanai (Faust)
  • A relay novel written with Takekuni Kitayama, Yuya Sato
    Yuya Sato (novelist)
    is a Japanese novelist from Hokkaido Prefecture. He won the 21st Mephisto Award for Flicker Style, and the 20th Yukio Mishima Prize for 1000 Novels and Backbeard. A few of his works have been published in the English edition of Faust. His works have been translated into Chinese and Korean.Kenzaburō...
    
    , Tatsuhiko Takimoto
    Tatsuhiko Takimoto
    is a Japanese author best known for his novel Welcome to the N.H.K.Welcome to the N.H.K. began as a single novel by Takimoto with a cover illustratation by Yoshitoshi ABe, which was published by Kadokawa Shoten in Japan on January 28, 2002. The story was later adapted as a manga series, also...
    
     and Nisio Isin
    Nisio Isin
    , frequently written as NisiOisiN to emphasize that his pen name is a palindrome, is a Japanese novelist and manga writer. He attended and left Ritsumeikan University without graduating. In 2002, he debuted with the novel , which earned him the 23rd Mephisto Award at twenty years of age...
    
    .
• Mado ni fuku Kaze (Faust)
• Utopia (Light novel wo kaku!)
• Dankai (Akumu seigyo Souchi horror anthology)
• Kono ko no e wa Mikansei (Nanatsu no Kuroi Yume)

Scripting/planning

• Hajime (Weekly Shonen Jump)
  • Script. Art by Takeshi Obata
    Takeshi Obata
    is a Japanese manga artist. He works as the artist in collaboration with a writer. He has also mentored several manga artists, including Kentaro Yabuki of Black Cat fame, Nobuhiro Watsuki of Rurouni Kenshin and Busou Renkin, and Yusuke Murata of Eyeshield 21.He originally became noticed in 1985...
    
    . Two part short story, appeared in Jump in 2003.
• Misshitsu Kanojo (2006, gekidan, Yukiko Mototani)
  • Planning. Not published, but his plot in script for was distributed at performances.
• Shonen Shojo Horyuki (Shosetsu Subaru)
  • Script. Art by Usamaru Furuya.

Movies

His movie work is often done under his real name.

• Nikako no Hitomi(2002)
  • Directed by Keisaku Sato. Script by Keisaku Sato and Hirotaka Adachi.
• Pool de Oyoda Kaerimichi (2002)
  • 5 minute long short film. Written and directed by Hirotaka Adachi.
• Rittai Tokyo (2007)
  • Scheduled to be shown at the Yubari Ouen Eigasai. Directed by Hirotaka Adachi.

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure novelization

In 2000, it was announced that Otsu-ichi would be writing a novel set during the fourth arc of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

is a manga written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. Every main character's name in each part can be read as JoJo. The manga, published by Shueisha, first ran in the magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1987 to 2002, before being transferred to the seinen magazine Ultra Jump in 2004. The current story...

. The novel proved difficult to complete; in Kono Mystery ga Sugoi 2004, Otsu-ichi claimed to have written over 2000 pages, but thrown them all out. Intent on writing a novel that lived up to the manga, it took him until 2007 to complete it.

• Jojo's Bizarre Adventure The Book: 4th Another Day.

Movies

• Te o nigiru Dorobo no Monogatari (2004)
  • Made for web, released on DVD
• Zoo (2005)
  • Anthology film, covering five of the stories in the Zoo short story collection. Kazari to Yoko, Seven Rooms, So-far, Youdamari no Shi, and Zoo. Youdamari no Shi was animated
    Anime
    is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
    
    ; each film had a different director.
• Kurai tokoro de Machiawase (2006)
• Calling You (2007)
• Kids (2008)
• Goth (2008)

Manga

• Goth (Monthly Shonen Ace)
• -Kiz/Kids- (Asuka)
• Calling You (Asuka)
  • These two were collected as Calling You
    Calling You (anthology)
    is a Japanese fictional short story collection written by Otsu-ichi and published on May 31, 2001 by Kadokawa Shoten. All three stories in Calling You are stories focused on unusual friendships with a supernatural twist. In December 2003, a manga adaptation written and illustrated by Setsuri...
    
    and published in English by Tokyopop.
• Kimi ni shika Kikoenai (Shonen Ace)
• Shinizokonai no Ao (Mystery Bst.)
  • Collection from Gentosha comics, collectsion Shinisokonai no ao, Kurai tokoro de Machiawase, and Happiness is a Warm Kitty.
• Zoo (Young Jump Special Mankaku)
  • Collection contains Kazari to Yoko, Kami no Kotoba, Youdamari no Shi, and Zoo.
• Shisso Holide (Beans Ace)
• Shonen Shojo Hyonikki (Shueisha)
  • Collects the serial from Shosetsu Subaru. The authors name is given as Furuya x Otsuichi x Usamaru

External links

• Otsu Ichi official site
• Otsu Ichi approved fan site
• Otsu Ichi at Hatena Diary
• "On The Right Corpse" -(ANN review of Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse anthology)