JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (『ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 テュルプ博士の解剖学講義』, JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken Tyurupu-hakase no Kaibōgaku Kōgi) is an unreleased light novel written by Otsuichi in 2000. The story took place in Morioh a year after the events of the fourth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Diamond is Unbreakable. It featured several new original characters drawn by Hirohiko Araki.
An incomplete 30-page rough draft was released in a December 2002 issue of Yomu Jump (a special novel-based issue of Weekly Shonen Jump) along with a full release date in February 2003, but 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.[1] Intent on writing a novel that lived up to the manga, it took him until 2007 to complete it.[2] The finished novel ended up being a completely different story and titled The Book jojo's bizarre adventure 4th another day.
The story centers around a nine-year old boy named Kaoru and his mother. The two of them move into Morioh a year after the events of Part 4. The apartment they moved into was previously owned by Minako Okura and Satoru Nakae, a couple that Yoshikage Kira killed. A robbery case from three years ago resurfaces, and Kaoru's mother is frightened by a mysterious stalker. Kaoru befriends Josuke Higashikata and learns various things about Stands and the history of the town. Kaoru encounters an old man in the park who ominously asks if his mother is hiding anything. He is eventually taken away by a nurse.
The book "False Impressions" (Asahi Bunko) is super good, though I wouldn't recommend it to non-art lovers. It's about the history of alleged forgeries that are still on display in famous art museums around the world.
The final version isn't ready yet. It's an endless cycle where I keep writing and writing and then discarding it myself. I'm sorry, Araki-sensei. I'm honored that you even took the time out of your busy schedule to draw illustrations. I hope it turns out to be a good story...
I'm gradually progressing with the novelization of the fourth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. I plan to finish it around the time Death Note concludes...
I've accepted several jobs, so after finishing those, I'll work on the novelization of the fourth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, which I've been tackling for a few years now. I've written and discarded it many times, so I hope to somehow complete it by next year.
Although I've completed it many times, I'm never quite satisfied with it, so I end up discarding it myself. In the end, I've thrown out over two thousand pages of the manuscript. I'm torn between the feeling that "it's better to postpone it than to publish something subpar," and the urge to "publish within a time frame, even if it's not perfect." Should I compromise and move on to the next task? Now that I have a stable income, I want to spend time satisfying myself rather than tackling a succession of many jobs.
Yomu Jump (Hirohiko Araki)
