Although the manga is a direct adaptation, it does not include all of the stories from the novel.

Instead of turning the notebook into the police, they attempt to find the next victim's body. In the title story, the unnamed narrator and his classmate Morino find a serial killer's notebook. “Novels perform about two thirds as well as manga in terms of book sales,” Pavia told PW, adding that 12 Kingdoms is their top selling novel.īest described as Nancy Drew meets Dexter (the Showtime TV series about a serial killer who catches other serial killers), Goth is about two twisted, death-obsessed high school students who continually get involved in gruesome murder cases. The novel will have a first print run of 20,000. The finished novel was then released to coincide with the 20th anniversary of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.The manga had a first print run of 15,000, and is in the top 200 on Bookscan. Since he wasn't writing or publishing any books at that time, he took a different job to earn a living in the interim while he worked on the novel.ĭedicated to write a novel which lived up to the manga, it took him until 2007 to complete it, which ended up becoming 4th Another Day. In the annual Japanese guidebook, Kono Mystery ga Sugoi 2004, Otsuichi claimed to have written over 2000 pages, but had thrown them all out. However, the novel ended up proving difficult to complete. Nicolaes Tulp was released in Yomu Jump (a special novel-based issue of Weekly Shonen Jump) along with a full release date in February 2003. In 2002, a rough 30 page draft of a novel titled The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. His request was accepted and he started writing manuscripts for the novel in the year 2000, but he ended up writing a 400-page manuscript that he eventually wasn't happy with. He also requested to write the Part 4 novel if nobody else was there to write it. As Part 3's novel had been published a few years ago, he went to ask one of the editors about a Part 4 novelization. In the year 2000, Otsuichi was visiting by Shueisha's editorial department where he learned about the Part 5 novel getting published. Otsuichi and Hirohiko Araki holding Otsuichi's 'The Book'

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