again in the 2010s. He focused on drawing web manga. Style He is known for an aesthetic of splatter and gore. The center of his stories is often mental illness, with depictions of bloody corpses, fratricide and torture. His character design is angular. Ochazukenori keeps drawing by hand; he says "If you draw with a pen tablet, the manuscript will not remain. So if there is a power outage, you won't be able to read it". Legacy Manga artist Yoshiki Takaya calls Ochazukenori an early influence, as Takaya was contributing to his doujinshi anthology Pen Touch. He recalled: "The kind of stories that Nori was drawing weren't what you'd call 'popular.' Our fanzine was the only place where he could create his own ideal manga." Ochazukenori has gained some international recognition for his manga. His work has been translated into French. The Japan Foundation in Sydney exhibited his work as part of the exhibition Retro Horror: Supernatural and the Occult in Postwar Japanese Manga from 2019 until 2021. Works References External links Official website (in Japanese) 1960 births Manga artists from Kanagawa Prefecture Living people Japanese horror writers