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Ochazukenori

Ochazukenori (御茶漬海苔, born April 12, 1960) is a Japanese manga artist. He is most famous for the horror manga he drew in the 1980s and 1990s.

Ochazukenori
Born(1960-04-12)April 12, 1960
Kawasaki, Japan
NationalityJapanese
OccupationManga artist

Life

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Ochazukenori was born in Kawasaki in 1960. He began reading manga from rental bookstores as a child, later he read Weekly Shōnen Sunday and Weekly Shōnen Magazine and drew manga inspired by Satoru Ozawa [ja]'s Submarine 707.[1] In his youth and while attending Rissho University in Tokyo,[2] he drew doujinshi together with friends. When he wanted to start his career as a professional manga artist, he had to send money to his parents to convince them of his career decision, as they wanted him to take over their hardware store. His doujinshi anthology Pen Touch gained a following for its obscure content. In parallel, he worked as an assistant first for manga artist Nasubi Fujitaka[1] and then Takeshi Ebihara [ja]. He started his career as a professional artist in 1984 in the lolicon magazine Lemon People with the short story "Seireijima".[2][3][4][5][6] His pseudonym Ochazukenori is the name of a rice dish with green tea and dried algae. He chose it, because it is similar to his birth name and because another manga artist suggested it to him and he like it.[5][1]

His first published works outside of lolicon magazines were with the publisher Asahi Sonorama, starting with the short story "Tōkyō ni Yukinofurubi" in 1986. While these manga were science fiction, he received more positive response from readers for his horror manga that he drew for the magazine Monthly Halloween, beginning with the short story "Blind". With the series Zangekikan ("The Horror Mansion"), which he serialized from 1987 until 1993, he shifted fully towards horror manga.[4] He specialized in short stories or episodic series[5] and was a regular contributor to the big horror manga magazines of the 1980s and 1990s like Monthly Halloween, Horror M [ja] and Suspiria [ja]. At the peak of his career, he drew over 100 pages a month for various monthly magazines.

When the serial murderer Tsutomu Miyazaki sparked a public discourse around horror manga in the early 1990s, Ochazukenori received phone calls at home about how his manga would promote criminal activity.[1]

He also became active as a film director, adapting three of the stories from his Zangekikan series into live-action films in 2008. One of the three episodes, Bathroom, won a film prize at an arthouse film festival.[1][7]

He published only little new work in the 2000s, but became more active again in the 2010s. He focused on drawing web manga.[1]

Style

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He is known for an aesthetic of splatter and gore. The center of his stories is often mental illness,[8] with depictions of bloody corpses, fratricide and torture.[5] His character design is angular.[9] Ochazukenori keeps drawing by hand; he says "If you draw with a pen tablet, the manuscript will not remain. So if there is a power outage, you won't be able to read it".[1]

Legacy

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Manga artist Yoshiki Takaya calls Ochazukenori an early influence, as Takaya was contributing to his doujinshi anthology Pen Touch. He recalled: "The kind of stories that Nori was drawing weren't what you'd call 'popular.' Our fanzine was the only place where he could create his own ideal manga."[3]

Ochazukenori has gained some international recognition for his manga. His work has been translated into French.[5] The Japan Foundation in Sydney exhibited his work as part of the exhibition Retro Horror: Supernatural and the Occult in Postwar Japanese Manga from 2019 until 2021.[8]

Works

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Title Year Notes Refs
"Seireijima" (精霊島) 1984 Short story published in Lemon People [2]
Suna no Television (砂のテレビジョン) 1985 Published by Kubo Shoten in 1 vol. [10]
Reincarnation (リーンカーネーション) 1986 Published by Tokyo Sanseisha in 1 vol. [11]
Bogeyman. (ブギーマン.) 1986 Published by Asahi Sonorama in 1 vol. [12]
Dōki (童鬼) 1987 Published by Tokyo Sanseisha in 1 vol. [13]
Maō Ghoul – Nevillestone Densetsu (魔王グール -ネビルストーン伝説-) 1987 Serialized in Battle Machine
Published by Asahi Sonorama in 1 vol. 		[14]
Zangekikan (惨劇館) 1987–1993 Serialized in Monthly Halloween
Published by Asahi Sonorama in 10 vol. 		[15]
Nebirosu no Sōji (ネビロスの双児) 1988 Published by Tokyo Sanseisha in 2 vol. [16]
13-nichi no Ochazukenori (13日の御茶漬海苔) 1988 Published by Asahi Sonorama in 1 vol. [17]
Kurukuru (クルクル) 1988–1989 Serialized in Monthly Halloween
Published by Asahi Sonorama in 1 vol. 		[18]
TVO 1989–1990 Serialized in Young Sunday
Published by Shogakukan in 3 vol. 		[2]
Hime (姫) 1991–1992 Published by Shongen Gahosha in 3 vol. [19]
Chalk (チョーク) 1991–1992 Published by Leeds Publishing in 5 vol. [20]
Yōkai Monogatari (妖怪物語) 1991–1992 Published by Asahi Sonorama in 3 vol. [21]
Kyōfu Jikkenshitsu (恐怖実験室) 1994–1996 Serialized in Suspiria [ja]
Published by Akita Shoten in 5 vol. 		[15]
Kyōfu Terebi TVO (恐怖テレビTVO) 1994 Serialized in Horror M [ja]
Published by Bunkasha in 4 vol. 		[22]
Ankoku Jiten (暗黒辞典) 1995–1997 Serialized in Horror M
Published by Bunkasha in 4 vol. 		[15]
Mayako-chan (魔夜子ちゃん) 1995–1997 Serialized in Kyōfu no Yakata DX
Published by Leeds Publishing in 3 vol. 		[15]
Kyōfu no Shinri Game (恐怖の心理ゲーム) 1999 Co-authored with psychologist Takashi Tomita
Published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha in 1 vol. 		[23]
Shōwa Kanamono-ya Monogatari (昭和金物屋物語) 2007 Published by Kasakura Shuppansha in 1 vol. [24]
Itain desu (痛いんです) 2012 Serialized in Comic Essay Theater
Published by Media Factory in 1 vol. 		[25]
Zansatsu Circus (斬殺サーカス) 2013–2016 Serialized in Manga Samurai Style
Published by Gakken in 2 vol. 		[26]
Jigoku Hakase to Neko (地獄博士とネコ) 2014–2015 Serialized in Comic Spica
Published by Kadokawa Shoten in 1 vol. 		[27]
Onnya no Isshō (おんニャの一生) 2021–Present Serialized in Aokishi [28]

References

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  6. ^ Adler, Renzo (2021-07-31). "Monthly Halloween: How American Horror was Translated for Shoujo Manga". ZIMMERIT – Anime | Manga | Garage Kits | Doujin. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
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  17. ^ "13日の御茶漬海苔 - メディア芸術データベース". mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  18. ^ "クルクル - メディア芸術データベース". mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  19. ^ "姫1 - メディア芸術データベース". mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
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  24. ^ "昭和金物屋物語 - メディア芸術データベース". mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
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  27. ^ "地獄博士とネコ | 作品情報". ASUKA (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  28. ^ "新マンガ誌・青騎士創刊、第1号には森薫「シャーリー・メディスン」の新作も". Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Retrieved February 24, 2023.
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