Osada Not


Osada Not is a Japanese manga artist and animator from Shizuoka Prefecture. She has made manga for horror magazines such as Suspense & Horror and Horror M, BL magazines such as June, Icarus and Reijin, and for the alt magazine Garo.

Biography

After working as an animator at Studio Pierrot and Hiroshi Sasagawa Office, they became a freelance animator.
They debuted as a manga artist on October 1986 in the first issue of the horror magazine Prom Night, published by Kindai Eigasha, with the short story The Infinity Girl.
She is a fan of the Tokyo Grand Guignol, whose plays she used as a basis and source of inspiration for short stories, she is a friend of Hiroyuki Tsunekawa, actor of Zera in Litchi Hikari Club, and of his wife Nuts Murakami, who has written stories for Not's manga.
She has made adaptations of Kenji Ohtsuki's novels for Horror M, the adaptation of The Ghostly Film of Lingwood Terrace was serialized through the issues of May, June and August 1997; and the adaptation of Stacy through February to May 1998. Both were compiled in Stacy, published by Bunkasha in October 1998 and Kadokawa in September 2001.
Her adaptations of Edogawa Ranpo's novels were mostly serialized in Suspiria and All Kaidan.
Not was mostly active in horror manga, her works are labeled as aesthetic horror, their main characteristics are violence, cruel characters,,, and beautiful artwork. She has also written more explicit eroguro works for BL magazines. Her bishōnen characters have influenced the shōnensō style of fashion.

Books

Many of her works have not been compiled in books yet.
Anthology participations
  • Makkana Shōjo in Komikku Hen Gakkou de Atta Kowai Hanashi, ASCII, 1995
  • Ame to Muchi no Hibi in 13 Nin no Short Suspense & Horror, Kodansha, 1996
  • Mont Sucht and 12-Kai Kitan in Akuma no Sasayaki, Kodansha, 1997
  • Kago no Tori in Horror Anthology Comic: Shikaku, Bunkasha, 2016

    Artbooks and illustrations

  • Cover of Vol.5 of anthology magazine Horror & Occukt Kyōsaku Daizenshū: HELP
  • Art featured in Edge -A Collection of Paintings-
  • Art for telephone card included in the issue celebrating Horror M's 3rd anniversary
  • Cover, illustrations and promotional art of Ohtsuki Kenji's novel Stacy
  • Covers of volumes 1 and 2 of BL anthology ICARUS

    CD

  • Original story and art for Horror M Psychophonic Sound, CD drama adaptation of manga from the Horror M magazine. CD published by Pony Canyon
  • Artwork for CD Drama Gensō Shōnen Tan Tsukihiko
  • Jacket artwork for Kinniku Shōjo Tai's album LOVE.