Eisaku Kubonouchi

Eisaku Kubonouchi ( Japanese 窪 之 内 英 策 , Kubonouchi Eisaku ; born November 11, 1966 in Kōchi Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese manga artist . His works can be assigned to his genre and appear mainly in the big comic magazines of the Shogakukan publishing house.

He published his first manga as a professional draftsman in 1986 with the short story Okappiki Eiji in the manga magazine Shōnen Sunday . From 1988 to 1991 he worked on his first series, Tsurumoku Dokushin Ryō , about a student who moves into a new apartment and meets his two new roommates. The manga, which is over 2000 pages long, was published several times in the form of anthologies after its publication in individual chapters in a magazine. Tsurumoku Dokushin Ryō was filmed in 1991 with Kōyō Maeda in the lead role. With Watanabe he drew his second manga series in 1992. In it he told of an alien who moved into the house of a Japanese high school student. Watanabe ended after 650 pages and was less successful than Tsurumoku Dokushin Ryō .

After a creative break of seven years, Kubonouchi Chocolat began , a story about a former mafia boss and a recently released prisoner who befriend a 16-year-old girl. Chocolat appeared in Big Comic Spirits until 2003 and comprises 1,400 pages. The manga was also filmed into a 45-part successful television drama in 2003 .

Kubonouchi's latest comic is Cherry , an anthology of which was published in Japan in May 2006.

Works

• Okappiki Eiji , 1986
• Tsurumoku Dokushin Ryō ( ツ ル モ ク 独身 寮 ), 1988–1991
• Watanabe ( ワ タ ナ ベ ), 1992
• Chocolat (シ ョ コ ラ , Shokora ), 1999–2003
• Cherry ( チ ェ リ ー , Cherī ), since 2006

Web links

• ド ラ マ 30 シ ョ コ ラ イ ン タ ビ ュ ー: 窪 之 内 英 策 ( Memento from February 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Japanese)