The Lives of Eccentrics

The Lives of Eccentrics (変人偏屈列伝) is a series of short stories written by Hirohiko Araki and illustrated by him and his assistant, Hirohisa Onikubo, released between 1989 and 2003. A hardcover volume compiling all the stories was released by Shueisha in 2004, and was converted into a paperback in 2012.

=Premise= The manga explores the lives of several famous eccentrics and bizarre real people. Each chapter features a different historical figure, narrating the course of their lives and focusing on a few notable events within them. While the manga attempts to respect the true story of each character, Araki takes some liberties in order to incorporate his own narrative style. The ultimate aim of the manga is to show the fascinating and even somewhat-respectable methods in which these eccentric and unconscionable people live their lives.

=Characters=
 * Ty Cobb (タイ・カッブ): An American League baseball player renowned for his great skill, irritable character, and unbridled arrogance.
 * Yoshio Kou (康 芳夫): A Chinese-Japanese producer and showman who, desiring to show Japan the strangest things imaginable, attempted to air an alleged human-chimpanzee hybrid named Oliver mating with a human woman on live television.
 * , a.k.a. Typhoid Mary (腸チフスのメアリー): An Irish-American woman identified as the first asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen, who spread the disease by working as a cook in New York City.
 * , owner of the Winchesutā Misuterī Hausu (ウィンチェスター・ミステリー・ハウス): An American woman who, believing the ghosts of Civil War soldiers sought revenge on her, began continuously constructing a labyrinthine mansion in San Jose, California.
 * The Koriyā-Kyōdai (コリヤー兄弟): Two American brothers who were known for their hoarding habits and obsession with privacy, to the point of filling their own house with deadly traps to protect from burglars.
 * Nikola Tesla (ニコラ・テスラ): An eccentric Serbian-American scientist and engineer known for his rivalry with Thomas Edison, particularly over his own invention of alternating current electricity.

=Chapters= While the base composition is provided by Hirohiko Araki, he only drew the chapters Typhoid Mary and Winchester Mystery House. The other chapters were drawn by Hirohisa Onikubo, with Nobuyuki Fujii assisting him on Nikola Tesla.

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