Shūzō Oshimi

His works have been adapted into many different media including television drama, anime, and live action film. In 2001, he won the Tetsuya Chiba Award. Oshimi is particularly known to write stories to his manga that reflect his own experiences, often centered around gender, puberty or psychosexual development, and other coming-of-age themes that reflect adolescence.

• Name — Shūzō Oshimi • Native Name — 押見 修造 • Born — 19 March 1981 • Birthplace — Gunma Prefecture, Japan • Occupation — Manga artist • Awards — Tetsuya Chiba Award

Oshimi was born on March 19, 1981. His childhood hometown was in the countryside of Kiryu, Gunma, which also served as the setting of his manga The Flowers of Evil. While growing up there, the main places he would visit were the riverbank, the stairs of his junior high school, and the bookstore.

Oshimi debuted with the one-shot manga Superfly in Kodansha's Monthly Shōnen Magazine. He would go on to start his first series Avant-Garde Yumeko in the magazine. His works have been adapted into many different media, with Drifting Net Café and Inside Mari into television dramas, The Flowers of Evil into an anime, and Sweet Poolside into a live action film. In 2001, he won the Tetsuya Chiba Award.

Oshimi's narrative style consists of stories presenting quirky, clumsy main characters, usually a boy and a girl couple, and how their relationship unfolds as the narrative progresses. He also presents uncommon, uncomfortable and, sometimes, disturbing situations through which the protagonists take part. This narrative style has been seen in all of the author's works, including his best-known work, The Flowers of Evil. Oshimi likes to explore themes such as coming-of-age and perversion, combined with his experiences in his youth. He thinks that the end of adolescence is hard to define, and is up to an individual to discover, such as in The Flowers of Evil. He also believes that perversion is a characteristic of every person that is surrounded by stigma which he wants people to think about. Oshimi also wants to explore the female perspective in his gender-bender manga Inside Mari, because to him, girls are "half of the world".

• 2001 — Superfly – Independent work, first published in the "Avant-Garde Yumeko" collection. • Midnight Paranoia Star • 2003 — Avant-Garde Yumeko – Published by Kodansha, single-volume. • 2004 — Sweet Poolside – Published by Kodansha, single-volume. • 2005-2006 — Devil Ecstasy – Published by Kodansha, 4 volumes. • 2007-2008 — Yūtai Nova – Published by Kodansha, 2 volumes. • 2008-2011 — Drifting Net Café – Published by Futabasha, 7 volumes. • 2009-2014 — The Flowers of Evil – Published by Kodansha, 11 volumes. • 2011-2012 — Shino-chan wa Jibun no Namae ga Ienai – Published by Ohta Publishing, single-volume. • 2012-2016 — Boku wa Mari no Naka – Serialized in Manga Action, published by Futabasha, 9 volumes. • 2015-2019 — Happiness – Published by Kodansha. • 2017 — Waltz – Serialized in Feel Young, published by Shodensha, single-volume. • 2017 — Femme Fatale: The Art of Shuzo Oshimi – Published by Futabasha. It is an art book featuring art from many of Shūzō Oshimi's works. • 2017-2023 — Blood on the Tracks – Serialized in Big Comic Superior, published by Shogakukan. • 2020 — Miss Kusakabe – Serialized in Web Comic Action, published by Futabasha, single-volume. • 2021 — Lily – Serialized and published by Weekly Young Magazine, single-volume. • 2020-2023 — Welcome Back, Alice – Serialized in Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine, published by Kodansha. • 2024 — Toxic Daughter: Chi-chan – Spin-off manga to the 2024 live-action film Doku Musume, which features a character designed by Oshimi who stars in this work. • 2024 — The Sound of a Blink – Serialized in Big Comic Superior, published by Shogakukan.

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