Otsuichi (乙一, Otsuichi?), also known as Eiichi Nakata and Asako Yamashiro, is the pen-name of Hirotaka Adachi (安達 寛高), born 1978.
He is a Japanese writer, mostly of horror short stories. He made his debut with Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse while still in high school.
Major works include the novel Goth, which was made into a manga, and the short story collection Zoo, which was made into a movie.
Tokyopop has released his short story collection Calling You, and will release Goth in November. His short story F-Sensei's Pocket appears in the English language edition of Faust.
I wondered why I was so lost, only to realize that I picked up the second set up shorts "僕の章" (My story) and not the first set "夜の章." (Yoru's story). I will reserve full judgement until I pick up the other volume. That being said, I kinda liked walking into this with no context. Was I confused? yes. Did that lead to moments of horrified realization of what was actually happening? Also yes. I feel like the entire thing is nonlinear anyway, so the confusion added to the setting rather than taking away.
Ultimately these short stories walk a bit too close to glorifying psychological horror than dealing with it. The endings are purposefully ambiguous and Otsuichi remains the master of obfuscating the full picture by using various narrative voices. His writing style is relatively easy to understand, but the content will sit with you and make you contemplate how terrifying other humans can actually be. If you like horror, then maybe it's worthwhile, but I will need time to sit with myself before finishing the rest.
La segunda parte de la colleccion de historias the Otsuichi.
Mientras que en la primera parte las historias siempre tenian un golpe final interesante. En esta segunda parte las historias eran mas normales y menos sorprendentes. Creo que quiza lo unico en lo que han ganado es en crueldad. Las historias son mas crueles de lo que solian ser en la primera parte.
Tambien me da la sensacion de que el autor esta rellenando paginas solo por rellenar, las historias realmente no avanzan demasiado.
The Goth books by Otsuichi are collections of short stories that follow two kids with a strange hobby of collecting serial killers. Each tale is the story of a killer and how one or both of these kids tracked them down and observed them. They don't tell the cops, they just watch and take notes about the killers. It's a strange dynamic, but by the end of the second book I wanted more stories of these two.