Kunio Nagatani

**Kunio Nagatani** (長谷邦夫, April 7, 1937-November 25, 2018) was a manga author and critic, known for popularizing the concept of parody manga though best known for his association withFujio Akatsuka and Fujio Pro.

## Life and Career

Nagatani was born in Katsushika City, Tokyo. After his graduation from high school, he had attempted to enter a pharmaceutical job but left after three months due to developing signs of tuberculosis while at work, opting instead to enter into manga as his profession.

He had made submissions to Manga Shonen, as well as having become part of the East Japan Manga Research Group headed by Shotaro Ishinomori, along with the "Drop of Ink" doujinshi group. Because he often traveled to Toshima and would visit the others at Tokiwa-so, he is also often counted among the residents there even though he was not actually a mainstay, nor did he become a member of the New Manga Party.

From around 1957 to 1964, Nagatani mainly published manga as kashihon, initially through Wakaki Shobo but mostly through Akebono. He joined Studio Zero at the end of this time, having assisted on Fujiko Fujio's *Q-taro the Ghost* as well as the group effort of *Rainbow Sentai Robin.* Previously around 1963, he had attempted to collaborate with other manga-ka as the group "The Seven Lucky Gods", though it did not fare well due to the living conditions of the apartment they stayed at.

By 1965, Nagatani had become one of Akatsuka's assistants at Fujio Pro, acting as an additional "Brain" and idea man. He produced works for Fujio Pro such as The Numbness of Scatan, while also putting out his own individual works such as *The Genius Pasuke* in that same year. Nagatani also became relied on for coordinating interviews with Akatsuka and copying down his memoirs, being the one who constructed the first autobiography for him *The Autobiography of Sheeh!: Osomatsu-kun and M*e in 1966.

In 1969, Nagatani launched the series *Kunio Nagatani Parody Theatre* in COM magazine, taking on many popular manga at the time and parodying them, including Fujio Pro's own Bakabon series in the mix. Nagatani would note "I didn't ask for the permission to parody, as it wasn't my aesthetic". The follow-up of *The Plagiarized World Masterpiece Collection* would run in the same magazine the following year, and both would be collected under the title of ***Baka-shiki*** by Akebono in 1970.

Nagatani would remain at Fujio Pro through the 1970s and 1980s, assisting or outright developing his own books to be published under the company name. He would also develop the manga *Kama Sutra* with Go Nagai in 1990. However, by 1992, it is said that he grew tired of Akatsuka's alcoholism and disputes arose with Machiko Akatsuka that lead to him leaving Fujio Pro behind with little notice (or him being expelled by Machiko and forbidden to come back, depending on the account). After this, he did not return for *The Collapse of the Sheeh! Religion* one-shot, and put more of his focus towards writing books on the history of manga and becoming a lecturer on the subject at colleges across Japan.

At one point after Akatsuka's death, Nagatani had discussed of going to Fujio Pro and having a meeting with Rieko Akatsuka out of interest in taking back a position and creative control at the company. Any possible interest and negotiations appeared to go nowhere or there was no agreement reached, as nothing further came of the news and Nagatani had nothing else to do with any Fujio Pro-related activities from further on.

On April 30, 2013, he collapsed due to a cerebral hemorrhage and effectively retired from that point, being put in a nursing home while his eldest son took management of his blog to relay his condition. However, Nagatani's condition did not improve over the years of the nursing home admission, with him eventually developing aspiration pneumonia and needing to be hospitalized full-time. His son would relate the story in a final update to the blog on December 2, 2018, where he announced that his father had passed away on November 25th of heart failure.

### Controversies

Nagatani was a contested figure among some others at Fujio Pro, and there are those such as Mitsutoshi Furuya who had left the company in part due to not getting along with him and feeling that he tried to position himself as the only one who knew Akatsuka and that could handle his work. Nagatani also having described himself as Akatsuka's "brain" and right-hand man in the group has been met with skepticism from readers who feel it gives him priority over other assistants who had also contributed notable parts to Akatsuka's career (Kenichiro Takai and Furuya among them). There are also those that feel due to Akatsuka having used Nagatani to relay his own history in his autobiography *The Autobiography of Sheeh!: Osomatsu-kun and Me* and to transcribe his words for some other books, that there may be debate over just how accurately Nagatani had conveyed his accounts of his life and some subjects to do with different series.

Various statements Nagatani had made about Akatsuka in his autobiography *The Men Who Shouted Love in Manga* and the biography *Fujio Akatsuka Genius Nyarome Legend* had also come under fire from fans for downplaying Akatsuka's importance as a creator, as well as being insensitive to Akatsuka's alcoholism and his vegetative condition at the time. Nagatani had also pointed out an issue with Shogakukan putting two of his works (The Numbness of Scatan and the TV Magazine version of The Genius Bakabon) in the Fujio Akatsuka Complete Works DVD-ROM set, wanting to receive royalties for it as well, which also caught controversy. In the end, Shogakukan gifted Nagatani a free copy of the set.

However, the most damning allegations by Nagatani that were repeated as fact for many years in some Akatsuka retrospectives, had to do with the idea that Akatsuka didn't value his own characters and works after a period of time due to his alcoholism. He had claimed that Akatsuka had entirely stopped drawing and writing his own works and instead left him to devise those concepts, and cited the 3rd run of *Osomatsu-kun* from 1987-1990 as being among them. This would be refuted later on by interviews with the newer staff at Fujio Pro that came in the later 1980s, particularly the head assistant Takayoshi Minematsu, who stated that Akatsuka still had a hand in coming up with the plots of serializations. There is also physical evidence of Akatsuka having drawn drafts for manga during that time, while Nagatani's own work was relegated to the Nyarome learning book series and other Fujio Pro-labeled educational books.

Due to the fact that Nagatani did have heavy involvement in those aforementioned books, there exist Fujio Pro works that remain unlikely to see reprint even after his death; The 1970s TV Magazine run of Genius Bakabon (later "The Original Genius Bakabon") mostly remains an outlier due to its luck in being associated with such a large title, and can still be seen to be represented in the eBookJapan edition. Even with the controversies over his claims about Akatsuka, he can be seen to have been the longest of the original guard that stuck around and that had his own impact, but one that would be buried to time.

## List of Works

### Kashihon

* **Five Minutes Before the Explosion** (爆発五分前, Wakaki Shobo, 1957)
* **City of Intrigue** (謀略の街, Wakaki Shobo, 1957)
* **The Living Ghost** (生きていた亡霊, Akebono Publishing, 1957)
* **Deadly Dogfight** (死の空中戦, Akebono Publishing, 1957)
* **Ambush at Mermaid Point** (人魚岬の待伏せ, Akebono Publishing, 1957)
* **Human Bullet Demon Squad** (肉弾鬼部隊, Akebono Publishing, 1957)
* **The Demon General of Antarctica** (南極の鬼将軍, Akebono Publishing, 1958)
* **Aerial Blood War** (空中血戦記, Akebono Publishing, 1958)- *Reprinted and digitized via eBookJapan*
* **Ghost Battlefront** (幽霊戦線, Akebono Publishing, 1958)
* **The Great Space Attack** (宇宙大攻撃, Akebono Publishing, 1958)
* **Don't Let the Murderer Escape** (殺人鬼をにがすな, Akebono Publishing, 1958)
* **The Girl of Shinigami-so** (死神荘の少女, Akebono Publishing, 1958)
* **Boy Sky King** (少年空戦王, Akebono Publishing, 1958)
* **Spider's Nest Castle** (くもの巣城, Akebono Publishing, 1958)- *Reprinted and digitized via eBookJapan*
* **Naval Battle! Death Record** (Akebono Publishing, 1958)
* **3000 Kilometers of Diving** (潜行三千キロ, Akebono Publishing, 1959)
* **Undersea Human Torpedo** (海底人間魚雷, Akebono Publishing, 1959)
* **The End of the Battleship Yamato** (戦艦大和の最後, Akebono Publishing, 1959)
* **Aircraft Carrier Sinking Strategy** (空母撃沈作戦, Akebono Publishing, 1959)
* **The Divine Devil Sword** (神変魔剣, Akebono Publishing, 1959)
* **Two Rings** (二つの指輪, Akebono Publishing, 1960)- Collaboration with Tomoko Horie and Kenichi Suzuhara
* **The 7 Man Kamikaze Squad** (7人の特攻隊, Akebono Publishing, 1961)
* **Eliminate the Magic Ball Pitcher** (魔球投手を消せ. Akebono Publishing, 1962)
* **Black Ripples** (黒い波紋, Akebono Publishing, 1962)- Collaboration with Katsutoshi Yamamoto and Yoshimichi Miyagawa
* **King Player** (王選手, Akebono Publishing, 1962)
* **Murder Stadium** (殺人球場, Akebono Publishing, 1962)
* **Deadly Ball Trap** (死球の罠, Akebono Publishing, 1962)
* **Deadly Ball Strategy** (死球作戦, Akebono Publishing, 1964)
* **Ninja Team** (忍者チーム, Akebono Publishing, 1964)
* **The New King** (新人王, Akebono Publishing, 1964)
* **Corpse Baseball Team** (死体球団, Akebono Publishing, 1964)
* **Three Crown King** (三冠王, Akebono Publishing, 1964)
* **Double Play of Death** (死のダブルプレイ, Akebono Publishing, 1964)
* **Ninja 1964** (忍者1964, Akebono Publishing, 1964)- The first of ten "Modern Ninja Series 1964" branded kashihon featuring modern-day ninja stories
* **Genjutsu 1964** (幻術1964, Akebono Publishing, 1964)
* **Dracula 1964** (ドラキュラ1964, Akebono Publishing, 1964)
* **Ninpocho 1964** (忍法帖1964, Akebono Publishing, 1964)
* **Sarutobi 1964** (猿飛1964, Akebono Publishing, 1964)
* **Kirigakure 1964** (霧隠1964, Akebono Publishing, 1964)
* **Kagemusha 1964** (影武者1964, Akebono Publishing, 1964)
* **Kigami 1964** (鬼神1964, Akebono Publishing, 1964)
* **Ghost 1964** (亡霊1964, Akebono Publishing, 1964)
* **Zero Fighter 1964** (零戦1964, Akebono Publishing, 1964)- Tenth and final book

### Series

*Some full serial information is incomplete and must be determined.*

* **The Numbness of Scatan** ◐(しびれのスカタン, April 1965-September 1968, Shonen Picture Report)- Reprinted by Akebono in an incomplete form, through 3 volumes.
* **The Genius Pasuke** ○(天才パア助, 1965, Weekly Shonen King #20 to #31)- Credited to "Kunio Nagatani and Fujio Pro". Short-term serial of 12 chapters, succeeded by Jiro Tsunoda's ***Ninja Awatemaru***.
* **Chibita Banzai** ○(チビ太ばんざい, June to December 1966, Elementary School 3rd Grade)
* **Tarant Parent and Child** ○(タラント親子, June 1968 to March 1969, Elementary School 3rd Grade)
* **Kurukuru Apartment** ○(くるくるアパート, October 1968 to March 1969, Shonen Picture Report)
* **Fujio Akatsuka's Extraordinary Theatre** ○(赤塚不二夫のもーれつ劇場, 1969, Weekly Shonen Sunday #17-27. Previous issues of the feature were handled by Akatsuka)
* **Kunio Nagatani Parody Theatre** ●(April to December 1969, COM)- Reprinted as part of "Baka-shiki" by Akebono.
* **Nyagoro** (ニャゴロー, September 1969-July 1970, Hopeful Friend)- Reprinted in a single volume by Akebono.
* **The Plagiarized World Masterpiece Collection** ●(January to September 1970, COM)- Reprinted as part of "Baka-shiki".
* **Akko-chan's Got a Secret!** ○(ひみつのアッコちゃん, April to November 1970, Elementary School 1st Grade)- Alternative version of Akko-chan, done as a media mix to the anime adaptation.
* **Do-Chojin Do-3-Biki!** ○(ド超人ド3匹！Weekly Bokura Magazine #38-45)- Collaboration with Mitsutoshi Furuya and Kazuyoshi Torii. Handled the first three chapters as the lead artist, with the credit being for "Kunio Nagatani and Fujio Pro".
* **The Genius Bakabon (Fun Kindergarten version)** ○ (July 1971-September 1973, Fun Kindergarten) - Collaboration with Jin Kawaguchi, under the Fujio Akatsuka and Fujio Pro billing.
* **The Genius Bakabon (TV Magazine version)** ◐(December 1971-October 1975, Monthly TV Magazine)- Re-titled "The Original Genius Bakabon" in its followup from November 1975-August 1977. Collaboration with Jin Kawaguchi, under the Fujio Akatsuka and Fujio Pro billing.
* **Absolutely Everything Interesting** (絶対面白全部, 1975, Young Comic)- Reprinted in a single volume by Akebono
* **Nyarome's Laboratory** ◐(September to December 1978, Cosmo Comic)- Story and "name" drafts for artwork. Art by Akatsuka and Fujio Pro, though the feature as a whole is simply credited to Akatsuka. Most content in this was revised and reprinted for the *Fun Cosmology Classroom* and *Fun Biology Classroom* books.

### Shorts

* **Transparent Comet XYZ** ○(透明彗星ＸＹZ) - Unpublished collaboration with Akatsuka, Takao Yokoyama, and Shotaro Ishinomori.
* **Goldfish** ○(きんぎょ, September 15, 1959, Shojo Club summer extra number)- Collaboration with Akatsuka and Tokuo Yokota, with responsibility of drawing some of the characters.
* **Kimi-chan's Gift** (キミちゃんのおかいもの, 1960, Ekubo #1)
* **Yumeko's Mars Expedition** (ユメ子の火星探検, 1960, Ekubo #2)
* **Crazy Papa** (1964?)- *Appears in Akebono's "Manga Crazy" compilation featuring the manga of the Seven Lucky Gods group; it is unknown if it debuted as a book-original work or was reprinted from elsewhere*
* **Odenkushinosuke** ○(おでんクシの助, 1965, Weekly Shonen King #32)- Story and Art
* **Nonsensical Tournament** ○(メチャクチャ大会, May 1965, Manga)- Collaboration with Akatsuka.
* **Heichara Dai-chan** ○(へいちゃらダイちゃん, August 1965, Separate Edition Shonen King)- Story and Art
* **Osomatsu-kun** ○(August and September 1966, Boys' Life)- Story and Art. These two chapters were done in the "picture story" format, rather than a full on comic.
* **Phantom Thief 1/2 Face** (怪盗1/2面相, September 1966, Shonen Book separate appendix)- Ghostwrote this final chapter of the Akatsuka/Fujio Pro series.
* **Iyami and Chibita's Tokaido Journey** ○(イヤミとチビ太の東海道ちん道中, March 1967, Elementary School 4th Grade)- Story and Art
* **The All Stars' Martial Arts Tournament** ○(オールズタズター御前試合, Weekly Shonen Sunday #3)- Collaboration with Fujio Akatsuka, Koichi Tateshi, and Takuya Yamaguchi.
* **Even if Meanness Never Dies** ○(イジワル死んでもなおらない, April 1969, Shonen Book)- Story and Art. Credited to "Kunio Nagatani and Fujio Pro"
* **The Thriller Family** ○(August 1969, Hopeful Friend)- Story and Art. Credited to "Kunio Nagatani and Fujio Pro". Though the title is identical, there is no relation to Akatsuka's The Thriller Family and is not to be mistaken for it.
* **Teretere-ojisan** (テレテレおじさん, August 27, 1969, Shonen Champion)- Ghostwriter for this second chapter of the feature, doing both the story and art.
* **The Great Bakada University Cultural Festival** ○(バカ田大学文化祭なのだ, November 1969, Deluxe Shonen Sunday)- Art portion. The story portion was by Takuya Yamaguchi.
* **Hanamaru Oni Misoccus** ○(ハナマル鬼ミソッカス, Weekly Shonen Jump #25)- Story and Art. Done as part of the Akatsuka Gag Laughter Reserved Seating feature.
* **The Bomb of Africa** ○(アフリカの爆弾, January 1970, Deluxe Shonen Sunday)- Based off the story by Yasutaka Tsuitsui
* **Geba Geba Parody: Professional Baseball Chin-Chin Go-Go** ○(ゲバゲバ・パロディー「プロ野球チンチンゴーゴー」, Weekly Shonen Sunday #2)- Art, with Story by Shohei Kizaki
* **Geba Geba** **Taishogatsu** ○(ゲバゲバ大正月, Weekly Shonen Sunday #3)- Story and Art
* **Spy Operation** ○(Weekly Shonen Jump #4-5 merger issue)- Story and Art. Done as part of the Akatsuka Gag Laughter Reserved Seating feature. *Unreprinted*
* **Party at 25:00** ○(二十五時のパーティ, June 1970, Pocket Punch OH!/ＰｏｃｋｅｔパンチＯｈ!)
* (おさな夫, August 1970, Bungeishunju Manga Reading appendix/文藝春秋漫画読本)
* (理科まんが　ニャロメのあぶりだし, 理科まんが　ニャロメのゆうびんや, January 1971, 1st Grade)
* **Introduction to the Gag Way** ○ (ギャグ道入門, Weekly Shonen King #13)- Story and Art
* **Introduction to Manga Pros** ○(まんがプロ入門, September 16, 1971, Akebono Publishing)
* **TV Manga Songs and Storytelling: Genius Bakabon** ○ (テレビマンガ　うたとおはなし　天才バカボン, December 1971, Asahi Sonorama)- Story and Art: Kunio Nagatani
* **It's Tetsuwan Atom! ●**(鉄腕アトムなのだ!!,, March 1972, Mushi special issue for Fujio Akatsuka)- Story. Art by Akatsuka and Fujio Pro. Nagatani's credit has been removed from reprints of the feature.
* **Urban Guerrilla Madness: Housing Complex Hijack Edition** ○(都市ゲリラ狂程〜団地ジャック編, April 15, 1972, Manga Sunday)- Credited to "Kunio Nagatani and the Fujio Pro Allied Forces"
* **Omuwaru-san** (オムワルさん, March 1973, Junior High Third Year Course)
* **Beramatcha Person** ○ (ベラマッチャ仕置人, September 1973, Separate Edition Shonen Sunday)- Story: Kunio Nagatani
* **Beramatcha Inspector Oni** ○ (ベラマッチャ鬼警部, January 1974, Separate Edition Shonen Sunday)- Story: Kunio Nagatani
* **QB** ○(May 1974, COOK)- Credited to "Kunio Nagatani and Fujio Pro"
* **Young Frankenstein** ○(October 1975, Monthly Shonen Champion)- Manga adaptation of the Mel Brooks comedy
* **Manga Economy White Paper** ○(マンガ経済白書, 1988, Mainichi Newspaper)

### Learning Books

* **Nyarome's World Expo Surprising Guide** (ニャロメの万博びっくり案内)- Volumes 1 and 2
* **How to Draw Gag Manga** (ギャグまんがの描き方, 1978, Akebono Publishing)
* **Nyarome's Fun Mathematics Classroom** (ニャロメのおもしろ数学教室, December 10, 1981)- Story
* **Nyarome's Fun Cosmology Classroom** (ニャロメのおもしろ宇宙論, March 17, 1982)- Story
* **Nyarome's Fun Biology Classroom** (ニャロメのおもしろ生命科学教室, August 9, 1982)- Story
* **Nyarome's Fun Computer Exploration** (ニャロメのおもしろコンピュータ探検, December 21, 1982)- Story
* **Nyarome's Very Strange Go Language** (ニャロメのおかしなおかしな囲碁格言, June 10, 1983)- Story and art
* **Nyarome's Fun Exploration of the Body's Mysteries**  (ニャロメのおもしろ体の不思議探検, August 15, 1983)- Story
* **Nyarome's Fun Sexual Education Classroom** (ニャロメのおもしろ性教室, December 23, 1983)- Story
* **Nyarome's Fun Introduction to Go** (ニャロメのたのしい囲碁入門, April 1, 1984)- Story and art
* **Nyarome's Big Blood Type Studies** (ニャロメの血液型大研究, August 1, 1984)- Story and art
* **Nyarome's Fun Introduction to Shogi** (ニャロメのおもしろ将棋入門, January 20, 1985)- Story and art
* **Doshite Books:** **Seven Wonders of Extraterrestrial Life** (July 15, 1985)- Story and art
* **Doshite Books: The Mind and the Mystery of the Brain** (July 15, 1985)- Story and art
* **Science and Dream Crisis Series:** **Nyarome's Great Nuclear Power Research** (ニャロメの原子力大研究, October 15, 1985)-Story and art
* **Science and Dream Crisis Series:** **Nyarome's Great Star Wars Research** (ニャロメのスターウォーズ大研究, February 15, 1986)- Story and art, though the cover art was by Akatsuka.
* **Science and Dream Crisis Series: Nyarome's Great Earthquake Research** (ニャロメの地震大研究, February 15, 1986)- Story and art
* **Business Classic Comics: Sonko** (November 20, 1986)- Story and art
* **Business Classic Comics: Hagakure** (November 20, 1986)- Story and art
* **Science and Dream Crisis Series: Nyarome's Great Meteor Research** (ニャロメの異常気象大研究, January 15, 1987)- Story and art
* **Comics Consumption Tax Strategy** (March 24, 1989)- Story and art
* **The Newest Space Exploration of Genius Bakabon's Papa: In Search of Universe** (文書院 長谷邦夫 天才バカボンパパの最新宇宙論探検 in search of universe, August 10, 1991)- Story supervision by Katsuhiko Sato (University of Tokyo), with artwork credited to "Kunio Nagatani and Fujio Pro"
* **Freud: Another Light Shines on Your Deep Psyche!** (フロイト : あなたの深層心理にいま一つの光が当たる!, Diamond Publishing "Diamond Comics", 1992)
* **Einstein: The Man Who Saw the End of the Universe for the First Time** (アインシュタイン : はじめて宇宙の果てまで見た男, Diamond Publishing "Diamond Comics", 1992)
* **Nostradamus: The Countdown to Destruction Has Begun!** (ノストラダムス : 滅亡へのカウント・ダウンが始まった! , Diamond Publishing "Diamond Comics", 1992)
* **Onisaburo Deguchi: The Folk Psychic Who Shook up the Militaristic Japan** ( 出口王仁三郎 軍国日本を震撼させた土俗の超能力, Diamond Publishing "Diamond Comics", 1992)

### Full-Length Manga Books

* **The Tokaido War** (東海道戦争, Asahi Sonorama, 1969)- Manga adaptation of the science fiction story by Yasutaka Tsuitsui
* **Kama Sutra** (カーマスートラ, 1990, Tokuma Shoten)- Story, with art by Go Nagai. 4 volumes
* **The Spirit World of Swedenborg** (スウェデンボルグの大霊界, 1991, Tokuma Shoten)- Story, with art by Kazumi Kakizaki. 3 volumes.

### Other Books

* **The Autobiography of Sheeh!: Osomatsu-kun and Me** (Hana Shobo, 1966)- Ghostwriter
* **Manga Introduction to the World Economy** (マンガ世界経済入門, Mikasa Shobo, 1987)
* **Pleasant Reading: BOOK to the Future** (快読術 : ブック・トゥ・ザ・フューチャー , Diamond Publishing, 1990)
* **Random Reading that Feels Good on the Brain** (脳に気持ちいい乱読術 , Diamond Publishing, 1992)
* **Japanese Manga-ka Directory: A Data Book of 500 Manga Artists** (ニッポン漫画家名鑑, Data House, 1994)
* **Japanese Manga Magazine Directory: Shonen, Seinen, Shojo, Lady Comi, Adult, Gekiga, Specialized, Doujinshi** (ニッポン漫画雑誌名鑑 : 少年誌・青年誌・少女誌・レディコミ・成人誌・劇画誌・専門誌・同人誌, Data House, 1995)
* **Japanese Manga Masterpiece Directory: Read 194 Masterpiece Manga at Once!** (ニッポン名作漫画名鑑 : 名作漫画194本いっき読み!! , Data House, 1995)
* **A Man Possessed by Gags: Manga Fights with Fujio Akatsuka** (ギャグにとり憑かれた男―赤塚不二夫とのマンガ格闘記, Adventure Company, 1997)
* **Study the Structure of Manga** (漫画の構造学, Index Publishing, November 2000)
* **Parody Manga Encyclopedia** (パロディ漫画大全, Suiseisha, 2002)
* **The Men Who Shouted Love in Manga: The Tokiwa-so Story** (漫画に愛を叫んだ男たち トキワ荘物語, Seiryu Publishing, 2004)
* **Fujio Akatsuka Genius Nyarome Legend** (赤塚不二夫-天才ニャロメ伝, 2005)- Biography of Akatsuka, with illustrations by Nagatani.
* **Manga Editors' Mad Laughs** (マンガ編集者狂笑録, Suiseisha, 2008)
* **Manga-ka Ten Nights of Dreams** (マンガ家夢十夜, Suiseisha, 2009)
* **Cherry Blossom March Promenade: The Autobiography of a Manga-ka** (桜三月散歩道 : あるマンガ家の自伝, Suiseisha, 2012)

### Characters designed by Nagatani for Fujio Akatsuka and/or Fujio Pro-branded works

* The cast of The Numbness of Scatan, minus Scatan himself. Sonota is prone to show up in Nagatani's own work, and he and Scatan both can cameo in Fujio Pro works that Nagatani had a hand in.
* "Keko-tan of Hokkairo!"
* The cast of ***The Genius Pasuke***, with Ohime-chan seeming to take cues from Jajako-chan's design
* The cast of ***Kurukuru Apartment***
* Sukesuke-jiijii of ***Do-Chojin Do-3-Biki!***

## External Links

* Nagatani official website: Manga University (Japanese)
* Nagatani blog (Japanese)