Eisaku Kubonouchi

Eisaku Kubonouchi (Japanese洼 之 内 英 策, Kubonouchi Eisaku; born November 11, 1966 in the prefecture Kōchi, Japan) is a Japanese manga artist. His works can be assigned to the His - genre, and appear mainly in the big- comic magazines of the Shogakukan publishing.

His first manga as a professional artist, he published in 1986 with the short story Okappiki Eiji in the manga magazine Shōnen Sunday. From 1988 to 1991 he worked on his first series, Tsurumoku dokushin Ryo, a student who moves into a new apartment and it gets to know his two new roommates. The more than 2000 pages long manga was published several times after the publication in individual chapters in a magazine in the form of anthologies. Tsurumoku dokushin Ryo was filmed in 1991 with Koyo Maeda in the lead role. With Watanabe 1992 he drew his second manga series. In it he told of an alien that feeds into the house of a Japanese high school student. Watanabe ended after 650 pages and was less successful than Tsurumoku dokushin Ryo.

After a hiatus of seven years Kubonouchi Chocolat began a story about a former mafia boss and one just dismissed inmate who make friends with a 16 year old girl. Chocolat released until 2003 in Big Comic Spirits and includes 1400 pages. The manga was also filmed in 2003 in a 45 -part, successful television drama.

Kubonouchis latest comic is Cherry from which an anthology published in Japan in May 2006.

Works

• Okappiki Eiji, 1986
• Tsurumoku dokushin Ryo (ツルモク 独身 寮), 1988-1991
• Watanabe (ワタナベ), 1992
• Chocolat (ショコラ, Shokora ), 1999-2003
• Cherry (チェリー, Cheri ), since 2006