News
MPD-Psycho Manga Will End in Volume 21
posted on by Lynzee Loveridge
The 20th volume of Eiji Ohtsuka and Shōu Tajima's MPD-Psycho manga is announcing on Friday that volume 21 will be the series' last.
Ohtsuka and Tajima's manga about a detective with multiple personalities launched in 1997. Dark Horse Comics licensed the series in 2006 and the company has released 10 compiled volumes. The manga inspired a live-action television series by Takashi Miike that BCI/Eclipse released on DVD in North America and Crunchyroll streamed on its website.
Ohtsuka began writing a series of essays on publisher Seikaisha's "Saizensen" website in May. The essay series, titled Kadokawa Tsuguhiko to Media Mix no Jidai (Tsuguhiko Kadokawa and the Era of Media Mix), is a biography of three generations of Kadokawa Group leaders: Gen'yoshi Kadokawa, Haruki Kadokawa, and Tsuguhiko Kadokawa. The series discusses the company's 80-year history, and how the three men introduced the era of "media mixing," when companies began crossing over into multiple genres of entertainment.
Ohtsuka is also currently working on The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service manga and its spinoff Matsuoka Kunio Yōkai Taiji with artist Hosui Yamazaki, the Ashiya Yonshimai Monogatari manga with Naomi Akamoto, and the Todenka: Dai Ni Jū Go Setsu manga with Nato Kio.
North America's Dark Horse Comics published the 13th volume of The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service in 2012.
Ohtsuka will appear as a guest at Los Angeles' Anime Expo convention this week.
