Otsuichi

Otsuichi (乙一, Otsuichi) is the pen name of the novelist and film director Hirotaka Adachi (安達 寛高, Adachi Hirotaka).

He is the author of the novel The Book ~jojo's bizarre adventure 4th another day~ and the short story Iggy the Stray Dog.

History

Otsuichi was born in the town of Tanushimaru situated in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. He started writing novels at the age of 16. His debut work was Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse in 1996 which won a novel award in Weekly Shonen Jump. He later graduated from the Toyohashi University of Technology in 2002. He continued to write light novels during his time in university.

Otsuichi and Hirohiko Araki holding Otsuichi's "The Book"

In the year 2001, Otsuichi was visiting by Shueisha's editorial department where he learned about the Part 5 novel getting published. As Part 3's novel had been published a few years ago, he went to ask one of the editors about a Part 4 novelization. He also requested to write the Part 4 novel if nobody else was there to write it. His request was accepted and he started writing manuscripts for the novel, but he ended up discarding his 400-page manuscript after not being satisfied with it. In 2002, a rough 30 page draft of a novel titled The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp was released in Yomu Jump (a special novel-based issue of Weekly Shonen Jump) along with a full release date in February 2003. However, the novel ended up proving difficult to complete. In the annual Japanese guidebook, Kono Mystery ga Sugoi 2004, Otsuichi claimed to have written over 2000 pages, but had thrown them all out. Since he wasn't writing or publishing any books at that time, he took a different job to earn a living in the interim while he worked on the novel.

Dedicated to write a novel which lived up to the manga, it took him until 2007 to complete it, which ended up becoming 4th another day. The finished novel was then released to coincide with the 20th anniversary of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

Interviews

#	Interview	Type	Media	Published
1	Yomu Jump (December 2002)	Interview	Magazine	December 3, 2002
2	Araki x Otsuichi - The Book (December 2007)	Interview	Magazine	December 4, 2007
3	Asahi Shimbun (July 2012)	Commentary	Newspaper	July 16, 2012
4	Da Vinci (April 2016)	Interview & Commentary	Magazine	April 6, 2016
5	Otsuichi (March 2022)	Interview	Magazine	March 19, 2022

Gallery

WorksPhotos

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  The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
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  The Book ~jojo's bizarre adventure 4th another day~
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  Iggy the Stray Dog

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  Otsuichi and Araki from Yomu Jump (2002)
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Trivia

• Yoshikage Kira is Otsuichi's favorite Part 4 character.