Tajū Jinkaku Tantei Psycho
Manga | |
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title | Tajū Jinkaku Tantei Psycho |
Original title | 多重人格 探 偵 サ イ コ |
transcription | Tajū Jinkaku Tantei Saiko |
country | Japan |
author | Eiji Ōtsuka |
Illustrator | Sho-U Tajima |
publishing company | Kadokawa Shoten |
magazine | Shōnen Ace → Comic Charge → Young Ace |
First publication | 1997 - March 4, 2016 |
expenditure | 24 |
Multiple Personality Detective Psycho ( Jap. 多重人格探偵サイコ , taju Jinkaku Tantei Saiko ) is a horror - manganese series written by Eiji Ōtsuka ( 大塚英志 , Ōtsuka Eiji ) and drawn by Sho-U Tajima ( 田島昭宇 , Tajima Shou ). In the subtitle, which is sometimes the main title in international editions, the series is also called MPD-Psycho . MPD stands for Multiple Personality Disorder , an English term for dissociative identity disorder , but also Multiple Personality Detective .
action
The manga is about Yōsuke Kobayashi ( 小林 洋 介 ), a detective who is personally involved in the processing of the case of a serial killer, even through the murder of a relative. As a result of what happened, Yōsuke lost his mind and developed a dissociative identity disorder . Since that incident, two people have lived in him - the relaxed detective Kazuhiko Amamiya ( 雨 宮 一 彦 ) and Shinji Nishizono ( 西 園 伸 二 ), a ruthless psychopath. Driven by thoughts of revenge and between the fronts of his ambivalent identities, Yōsuke gradually gets into a web of death, torture and madness through further incidents.
publication
The series was published from 1997 by the publishing house Kadokawa Shoten : first from issue 2/1997 to 1/2005 in the Shōnen Ace , then after a long break from August 2007 in the Comic Charge and after their setting from January 2009 in the Young Ace , where the series ended in 2016. The chapters were summarized in 24 anthologies ( Tankōbon ).
The manga was published in the US by Dark Horse , but discontinued after the 10th volume in November 2011. A French version is published by Pika Edition, a Spanish version by Glénat and a Portuguese version by Planet Manga .
Television series
The manga got a television adaptation in 2000 as a six-part miniseries in which Takashi Miike acted as a director. Yōsuke Kobayashi was played by Naoki Hosaka.
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
- Entry at Anime News Network (English)