Eiji Otsuka is coming to Montreal!

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Eiji Otsuka is coming to Montreal!

01/26/2012 1:49pm

Meet the creator of The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service and MPD Psycho at Concordia University!

Manga fans, especially those outside Japan, know how rare it is to get the chance to meet the creators of the work they love. That's why Dark Horse would like to encourage readers to seize the opportunity to see Eiji Otsuka in his upcoming appearance in Montreal as keynote speaker at the February 4-6, 2012 event of Concordia University's President's Conference Series: "Experiencing the Media Mix: Anime, Manga, Video Games." The official site of the event is here.

Readers of Dark Horse's Kurosagi and MPD Psycho will be aware that Eiji Otsuka's prolific output as a manga creator (including many titles not yet published in English!) is energized by his training as an anthropologist, his interest in folklore, and his drive to write humorous, dynamic and shocking pop culture stories that examine how modern society, often seen as amnesiac and next-thing obsessed, is actually a legacy system—not so much a future, but the past upgraded, and still full of lethal errors.

That's a theme Otsuka will be addressing in his keynote speech on February 4 on the origins of anime, "The Unholy Alliance of Disney and Eisenstein," centered around the rarely-seen first feature-length anime film, 1945's Divine Sea Warriors, a propaganda epic released even as Japan was burning to the ground. Whereas later anime classics such as Space Battleship Yamato would echo the war, Divine Sea Warriors literally was co-produced by the Japanese Imperial Navy, and, some scholars believe, used actual POWs as voice actors to portray the enemy.

On February 6, Eiji Otsuka will oversee and conduct a Q&A around a master class session devoted to themes in Japanese media and pop culture. Joining the students, and also giving presentations at a symposium on February 5, will be a number of scholars in the field, including several associated with Mechademia—the University of Minnesota Press's academic journal devoted to anime, manga, and its associated fan culture.

"Experiencing the Media Mix: Anime, Manga, Video Games" is a rare chance to experience a gathering of scholarship in the manga field, together with one of its successful modern-day practitioners, offering manga as both theory and practice! As Eiji Otsuka's North American publisher, we're proud that it was a Dark Horse creator whom Concordia invited to represent manga at this event...and we hope you don't miss it!

—Carl Horn

Editor

The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service

The most recent Dark Horse book by Eiji Otsuka is MPD Psycho vol. 10, released November 16, 2011. The next is The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service vol. 12, on sale March 28, 2012. And Eiji Otsuka's work becomes available from Dark Horse Digital starting January 25, when Kurosagi vol. 1 goes live on DHDP, with vol. 1 of MPD Psycho following on February 8! Look out for the other volumes in these series on DHDP as we move into the spring and summer of 2012!

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