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Oh!great made his debut in 1995 with SEPTEMBER KISS, which appeared in Manga Hot Milk (Byakuya-Shobo).
He has serialized Tenjho Tenge and Biorg Trinity (co-created with Otaro Maijo) in Ultra Jump (Shueisha), and Air Gear in Weekly Shonen Magazine (Kodansha). He won the 30th Kodansha Manga Award in the shonen category for Air Gear.
He has also designed numerous characters for anime and games. He is currently serializing Bakemonogatari (original story by Ishin Nishio) in Weekly Shonen Magazine.
The Bio Bug is a disease that causes holes to appear in both palms and allows people to inhale and fuse with whatever they want. Featuring an ensemble of characters, the series is a coming-of-age drama set in a world with a fragile balance. It's a challenging work jointly created by the novelist Otaro Maijo and Oh!great with the aim of making a novel in the form of manga, rather than the manga version of a novel.
This battle action series tells the story of a struggle between the Executive Council that controls a school and the school's Juken Club to which the main character, Souichiro Nagi, and the others belong. When Souichiro Nagi enrolls in Todo Academy, where he's taken to the fated battlefield after meeting the sisters Maya and Aya Natsume. Boosted by its powerful battle action scenes and its depiction of beautiful girls, the series was adapted for an animated television series in 2004. A total of more than 13 million copies of the work have been published.
