Ohta Publishing

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Ohta Publishing
Type Kabushiki-gaisha
Industry Publishing
Founded 1985
Headquarters Tokyo, Japan
Key people Satōshi Oka (岡聡氏) (CEO)[1]
Products Books, magazines
Website http://www.ohtabooks.com/

Ohta Publishing Company (太田出版 Ōta Shuppan) is a Japanese publishing company. With a number of controversial books that disturbed the Japanese society and its erotic manga comics, the company has established itself like a source of provocative "subculture" items.

History

Ohta Publishing was created in 1985, when it separated from the publishing department of Ohta Production, a talent agency specializing in stand-up comedians. (Founded as a yūgen-gaisha, it has now, as of 2013, been converted to a kabushiki-gaisha.)

Initially, from an outside perspective, Ohta Publishing did not seem like a serious company but rather a sort of a toy company of Takeshi Kitano (who was an Ohta Production artist back then). It released books that were of interest to Kitano himself.[1]

In 1989, Ohta published the famous book The Age of M[2] about serial child murderer Tsutomu Miyazaki and started establishing itself like a source of provocative "subculture" items. Around the same time the bi-monthly magazine QuickJapan was founded. In 1993 Ohta released the disturbing book The Complete Manual of Suicide and in 1999 Battle Royale, which shook the Japanese society.[1]

At the end of 1990s, the company also started working with manga artist Naoki Yamamoto, dubbed the master of erotics, and founded the manga magazine Manga Erotics. Its successor Manga Erotics F now accounts for a large percentage of all company's manga sales.[1]

Prominent titles

The company is best known for having published books like The Age of M (1989), The Complete Manual of Suicide (1993) and Battle Royale (1999) and numerous manga comics, including Tatami Galaxy and Eien no Zero. It also publishes the manga magazine Manga Erotics F and the magazine QuickJapan.[1] Some other recent manga titles include Miyamoto kara Kimi e[3] and Kami no Kodomo.[4]

List of periodic and serial publications

Print magazines

Web magazines

  • Poko Poko(ja) (ぽこぽこ)

Manga

  • Aoi Hana
  • Astro Kyūdan
  • Bradherley no Basha
  • La Croisade des Innocents
  • The Devil is So Cute
  • Don't Disturb Me and Him, Please
  • Don't Say Anymore, Darling
  • Drops
  • Gente - Ristorante no Hitobito
  • Hallucination from the Womb
  • Keep on Vibrating
  • Kokumin Quiz
  • Lychee Light Club
  • Mariko Parade
  • Mikai no Hoshi
  • Nijigahara Holograph
  • Not Love But Delicious Foods Make Me So Happy!
  • Palepoli
  • Pico-Pico Boy
  • Pico-Pico Boy Turbo
  • Punctures
  • Ristorante Paradiso
  • Romance of an Ancient Dreaming City
  • Sennen Gahō
  • The Tales of the Town Uroshima
  • The Tatami Galaxy
  • Tora & Ken's Happy Lovely Life!
  • Tropical Citron - Psychedelic Witch Story
  • Utsubora - A Story of a Novelist
  • Velveteen & Mandala
  • Watching Fuckin' TV All Time Makes a Fool
  • Yukiko's Spinach

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "QuickJapan、ついに電子化――太田出版の「根源的・挑発的」な出版魂". iMedia (in Japanese). 2012-10-01. Retrieved 2013-11-19. 
  2. ↑ The Age of M (Mの時代 M no Jidai) by Akio Nakamori
  3. ↑ "元祖非モテマンガ「宮本から君へ」が太田出版から復刊". Natalie. 2008-12-25. Retrieved 2013-11-16. 
  4. ↑ "西岡兄妹、ホラーM連載の「神の子供」太田出版より発売". Natalie. 2010-11-29. Retrieved 2013-11-16. 

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