Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mangaka Person An individual. Birth Date 1958 Birthplace Nishitōkyō, Tokyo Occupation Mangaka Biographical Text Eiji Ōtsuka (大塚英志) is a Japanese social critic, folklorist, media theorist, and novelist born in Tokyo in 1958. He is currently a professor at International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto and an author of nonfiction books on Japanese popular cultures. Ōtsuka graduated from the University of Tsukuba with a degree in anthropology and folklore, and his doctorate in artistic engineering from Kobe Design University. He later became editor-in-chief of Manga Burikko, a leading magazine where he pioneered academic research on otaku subculture in the 1980s. He is a professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto. In the late 1980s, Ōtsuka was involved in a murder trial that criminalized the public's perception of manga. As the murderer had a large collection of manga, public media depicted manga readers broadly as psychologically disturbed perverts. Since then, Ōtsuka has defended manga and developed a theory of media consumption: consumers collect small narrative to construct a grand narrative. His book, A Theory of Narrative Consumption, explains this theory further. As a manga writer (working with artists rather than illustrating himself), Ōtsuka is best known for two long-running horror series: MPD Psycho, a psychological thriller about a detective with multiple personalities investigating serial murders, and <a href="https://lis5472.cci.fsu.edu/sp26/group6/items/show/6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service"</a>, a darkly comic series about college students who help restless spirits of the dead. Bibliography <h2>1980s</h2> 1987 Mōryō Senki MADARA (魍魎戦記MADARA) | Published in English as "Madara" (1987 – 1994) with Shōu Tajima <h2>1990s</h2> 1994 Japan (ジャパン) (1994 – 1995) 1997 Tajū jinkaku tantei saiko (多重人格探偵サイコ) | Published in English as "MPD Psycho" (1997 – 2016) with Mami Itoh 1999 Kijima nikki (木島日記) (1999 – 2003) Rivu~aiasan (リヴァイアサン) (1999 – 2005) with Yu Kinutani <h2>2000s</h2> 2000  Kurosagi shitai takkyūbin (黒鷺死体宅急便) | Published in English as <a href="https://lis5472.cci.fsu.edu/sp26/group6/items/show/6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service"</a> (2000 – present) 2004 Tantei Gishiki (探偵儀式) (2004–2009) with Ryusui Seiryoin and Chizu Hashii Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Otsuka, Eiji 大塚英志 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Sarah Romero Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1958/2026