Tetsuya Tsutsui
Tetsuya Tsutsui
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Tetsuya Tsutsui (筒井哲也, born November 17, 1974) is a Japanese manga artist known for tense, socially charged thrillers. He debuted in 2002 with Duds Hunt, then serialized Manhole and Reset in Square Enix's Young Gangan.
His breakthrough was Prophecy (Yokokuhan), run in Shueisha's Jump X from 2011 to 2013, which follows a police cybercrime unit hunting a masked man who posts videos foretelling his crimes; it was adapted into both a live-action film and a television drama in 2015.
After discovering that his earlier series Manhole had been designated a "harmful book" by Nagasaki Prefecture, Tsutsui responded with Yūgai Toshi (Poison City), a semi-autobiographical work about manga censorship that won the ACBD's Prix Asie in 2015 and an Excellence Award at the Japan Media Arts Festival in 2017.
His later thriller noise was adapted into a live-action film in 2022. Widely read in France, where his books are published by Ki-oon, Tsutsui has released much of his work independently.
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Several of his series have received live-action adaptations, including the thriller Prophecy, which was adapted into both a feature film and a television drama in 2015, and the manga noise, which was adapted into a live-action film in 2022.
This work was written as a direct response to the author's personal experience with censorship after his earlier series, Manhole, was officially designated as a harmful book by the Nagasaki Prefecture.
The series has a direct sequel titled Yokokuhan: The Copycat, which was serialized between 2014 and 2015 and features illustrations by Fumio Obata.