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Eiji Otsuka

Born

in Tanashi, Tokyo, Japan

August 28, 1958

Genre

Manga, Horror, Comics

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Social anthropologist and novelist. Graduated from college with degree in anthropology, women's folklore, human sacrifice and post-war manga. In addition to his work with manga he is a critic, essayist, and author of several successful non-fiction books on Japanese popular and “otaku” sub-cultures. One of his first animation script works was Maho no Rouge Lipstick, an adult lolicon OVA. Otsuka was the editor for the bishojo lolicon manga series Petit Apple Pie.

In the 80s, Otsuka was editor-in-chief of Manga Burikko, a leading women's manga magazine where he pioneered research on the “otaku” sub-culture in modern Japan. In 1988 he published "Manga no Koro" (The Structure of Comics), a serious study of Japanese comics and their social sig ...more

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	The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Volume 1 by Eiji Otsuka, Housui Yamazaki (Illustrator), Toshifumi Yoshida (Translator) 3.84 avg rating — 2,910 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	MPD Psycho, Vol. 1 by Eiji Otsuka, Sho-u Tajima, Kumar Sivasubramanian (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.86 avg rating — 2,133 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Volume 2 by Eiji Otsuka, Housui Yamazaki (Illustrator), Toshifumi Yoshida (Translator) 4.05 avg rating — 1,230 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Volume 3 by Eiji Otsuka, Housui Yamazaki (Illustrator) 4.06 avg rating — 1,022 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	MPD Psycho, Vol. 2 by Eiji Otsuka, Sho-u Tajima (Illustrator), Kumar Sivasubramanian (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.05 avg rating — 884 ratings — published 1998 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Volume 4 by Eiji Otsuka, Housui Yamazaki (Illustrator) 4.11 avg rating — 804 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Volume 5 by Eiji Otsuka, Housui Yamazaki (Illustrator) 4.09 avg rating — 662 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus, Book 1 by Eiji Otsuka, Housui Yamazaki (Illustrator) 4.13 avg rating — 613 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Volume 6 by Eiji Otsuka, Housui Yamazaki (Illustrator) 4.11 avg rating — 598 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	MPD Psycho, Vol. 3 by Eiji Otsuka, Sho-u Tajima (Illustrator), Kumar Sivasubramanian (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.01 avg rating — 597 ratings — published 1998 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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