Tonogai, Yoshiki
- Title
- Tonogai, Yoshiki
- 外海 良基
Dublin Core
- Birth Date
- Unknown
- Birthplace
- Shiga Prefecture, Japan
- Occupation
- Mangaka
- Biographical Text
Yoshiki Tonogai (外海良基) is a Japanese manga artist from Shiga Prefecture, born on March 14 (year undisclosed). Before making his manga debut he worked as an assistant to Soul Eater creator Atsushi Ohkubo. He is best known for a trilogy of psychological survival-horror manga - Doubt, Judge, and Secret - all serialized in Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan and connected by the recurrence of an iconic rabbit mask. He is also notable for his illustrating the Time Killing Arc of Higurashi When They Cry.
Each of his three connected horror series follows a group of characters trapped in a confined space and forced to identify a killer among themselves, with a strong emphasis on paranoia, moral culpability, and final-act reversals. Doubt ran from 2007 to 2009, Judge from 2010 to 2012, and Secret from 2013 to 2015. All three were published in English by Yen Press. A live-action film adaptation of Judge was released in Japan in 2013.
- Bibliography
2006
2000s
Higurashi no Naku Koro: Himatsubushi-hen (ひぐらしのなく頃に 暇潰し編) | Published in English as "Higurashi When They Cry: Time Killing Arc"
2007
Dauto (ダウト) | Published in English as "Rabbit Doubt" (2007 - 2009)
2010s
2010
Jaiji (ジャッジ) | Published in English as "Judge" (2010 - 2012)
2013
Shīkuretto (シークレット) | Published in English as "Secret" (2013 - 2015)
2015
Ikitemasu ka? Honda-kun (生きてますか？ 本田くん) (2015 - 2018)
2019
Deddo Kanpanī (デッドカンパニー) | Published in English as "Dead Company" (2019 - 2020)