# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eiji-otsuka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:27:16.272Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eiji-otsuka"
name: "Eiji Ōtsuka"
slug: "eiji-otsuka"
description: "Eiji Ōtsuka  is a Japanese social critic, folklorist, media theorist, and novelist. He is currently a professor at International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto. He graduated from University of Tsukuba with a degree in anthropology, women's folklore, human sacrifice and post-war manga. In addition to his work with manga, Ōtsuka is a critic, essayist, and author of several successful non-fiction books on Japanese popular and otaku subcultures. He has written the Multiple Personality Detective Psycho and The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service manga series. One of his first animation script works was Mahō no Rouge Lipstick, an adult lolicon OVA. Ōtsuka was the editor for the bishōjo lolicon manga series Petit Apple Pie."
tagline: "Japanese novelist, editor, critic, academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%E5%A4%A7%E5%A1%9A%E8%8B%B1%E5%BF%97.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1958"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.32
  momentum:             0.07251908396946564
  historical:           8.656674666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E5%A1%9A%E8%8B%B1%E5%BF%97"
    title: "大塚英志"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A_%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A7"
    title: "إيجي أوتسوكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiji_%C5%8Ctsuka"
    title: "Eiji Ōtsuka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiji_Otsuka"
    title: "Eiji Otsuka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AC%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%DA%A9%D8%A7"
    title: "ایجی اوتسوکا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiji_%C5%8Ctsuka"
    title: "Eiji Ōtsuka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiji_%C5%8Ctsuka"
    title: "Eiji Ōtsuka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E5%A1%9A%E8%8B%B1%E5%BF%97"
    title: "大塚英志"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiji_%C5%8Ctsuka"
    title: "Eiji Ōtsuka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3049381"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump