Hi Score Girl Manga Creator Rensuke Oshikiri Recalls Publisher’s Meeting Gone Terribly Wrong

It’s hard to imagine two manga artists with more contrasting styles than rensuke oshikiri (Hello Score Girl) and shuzō oshimi (The flowers of Evil). However, perhaps because their last names sound a bit similar, there was a time when a manga editor mistook one for the other.

Oshikiri decided to share this anecdote in all its comedic glory by creating an animation for Twitter. Her post last Sunday quickly became a hit, racking up more than 10,000 retweets and 25,000 likes as of Wednesday.

Oshikiri’s animation portrays the hapless editor as an enthusiastic man who tells Oshikiri about his love for Oshimi’s characters. When he finally realizes his mistake, he awkwardly backs off and tries to say that he’s always wanted to work with Oshikiri too, but at this point, Oshikiri is fed up.

Hello Score Girl is a romantic comedy about the Japanese arcade scene of the 1990s. The flowers of Evil is a psychological drama about teenagers testing their sexual inhibitions. Oshimi is also known for creating inside mari, sweet poolsideand blood on the trackswhich also explore themes of maturity and perversion.

Oshikiri is best known for Hello Score Girlwho threw in Square Enix‘s great monthly bargain magazine in 2010. The series inspired an anime that debuted in Japan in July 2018. He ended the manga in September 2018. He launched a new manga titled earthgenie in akita shoten‘s Weekly Shōnen Champion in September 2021.

Outside of the manga world, Oshikiri is also known for his animation work. He held a crowdfunding campaign from October to December 2019 for his mini anime project. The spirit of the house Tatami-chan. The anime premiered in April 2020, and was Oshikiri’s anime directorial debut. He also drew the art, wrote the scripts, and drafted the original character designs. crunchyroll aired the anime as it aired.

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