Osada Not (Japanese: 長田ノオト, Hepburn: Osada Nōto; born March 16) is a Japanese manga artist and animator from Shizuoka Prefecture. She has made manga for horror magazines such as Suspense & Horror and Horror M, BL magazines such as June, Icarus and Reijin, and for the alt magazine Garo.
After working as an animator at Studio Pierrot and Hiroshi Sasagawa Office, they became a freelance animator.
They debuted as a manga artist on October 1986 in the first issue of the horror magazine Prom Night (プロムナイト), published by Kindai Eigasha (近代映画社), with the short story The Infinity Girl (永遠少女, Eien Shōjo).
She is a fan of the Tokyo Grand Guignol, whose plays she used as a basis and source of inspiration for short stories, she is a friend of Hiroyuki Tsunekawa, actor of Zera in Litchi Hikari Club, and of his wife Nuts Murakami, who has written stories for Not's manga.
She has made adaptations of Kenji Ohtsuki's novels for Horror M, the adaptation of The Ghostly Film of Lingwood Terrace (リンウッド・テラスの心霊フィルム, Rin'uddo Terasu no Shinrei Firumu) was serialized through the issues of May, June and August 1997; and the adaptation of Stacy (ステーシー, Sutēshī) through February to May 1998. Both were compiled in Stacy (ステーシー), published by Bunkasha in October 1998 and Kadokawa in September 2001.
Her adaptations of Edogawa Ranpo's novels were mostly serialized in Suspiria and All Kaidan.
Not was mostly active in horror manga, her works are labeled as aesthetic horror, their main characteristics are violence, cruel characters, bishōnen, eroguro, and beautiful artwork. She has also written more explicit eroguro works for BL magazines. Her bishōnen characters have influenced the shōnensō style of fashion.
Many of her works have not been compiled in books yet.
Anthology participations
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