CATDOLL: Edogawa Ranpo's novel adaptation "Edo Ranpo Kaiki Manga Museum" is released

The collection of manga versions of Edogawa Ranpo's novels written by Shinichi Koga in the past, "Edo Ranpo Kaiki Mangakan", will be released by Jitsugyo no Nihonsha on January 24th.

"Edogawa Ranpo Kaiki Manga" includes three works. "Walkers in the Roof" is about two young men who live in the same apartment and have an unusual love; "Inhuman Love" is about a wife who finds out that her husband disappears at night; and "The Shadow of the Shadowless Man" is about a male mystery writer who solves the secret of a female director of a trading company whom he meets by chance.

Edogawa Ranpo, whose real name is Hirai Taro, was born on October 21, 1894 in Nabari Town, Mie Prefecture, Japan. He is the most famous mystery writer and critic in Japan, and is known as the "father of detective mystery novels" in Japan. His works are confusing and suspenseful, full of strange and bizarre atmospheres, and have reasonable reasoning and judgment. He uses absurd and fantasy romance as the main theme of his creation, and can deeply grasp the psychology of the characters. His reasoning is rigorous and impeccable! The detective Akechi Kogoro (the origin of the name of Maori Kogoro in "Detective Conan") written by him is a household name in Japan. In 1923, he published his highly praised debut work "Two-cent Copper Coin" in "New Youth" (not the "New Youth" of the New Culture Movement), and began to create mystery novels (the original name was detective novels, and later changed to the current name under the advocacy of Edogawa Ranpo). As early as the early 1920s, when he was just starting his writing career, he had grasped the essence of mystery novels and knew that mystery novels were a kind of rational literature that solved mysteries logically. He became a pioneer in the field of Japanese mystery novels and the founder of the Japanese mystery "honkaku school". He died on July 28, 1965 at the age of 71. He is one of the "three peaks of Japanese mystery literature" along with Matsumoto Seicho and Yokomizo Seishi. In "Detective Conan", Edogawa Conan uses his surname.