1. Otsuichi is the pen name of Hirotaka Adachi is a Japanese writer and filmmaker.
10 Facts About Otsuichi
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Otsuichi is a member of the Mystery Writers of Japan and the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan.
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Otsuichi made his debut with Summer, Fireworks and My Corpse while still in high school.
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Otsuichi was born on October 21,1978, in Tanushimaru, Fukuoka Prefecture, the eldest son of a family of four with his parents and two older sisters.
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Otsuichi attended Kawai Elementary School and during his later years there, he became overweight, surpassing 60 kilograms.
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Otsuichi started writing his own novels when he was 16 years old.
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At that time, Otsuichi was invited by an editor to watch the sound editing of Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence.
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Otsuichi wrote and published Goth as a light novel to introduce people who only read light novels to the mystery genre in the hope of expanding the horizons of readers to other forms of literature.
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In 2000, it was announced that Otsuichi would be writing a novel set during the fourth arc of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
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The novel proved difficult to complete; in Kono Mystery ga Sugoi 2004, Otsuichi claimed to have written over 2000 pages, but thrown them all out.