Goth | |
ゴス (Gosu) | |
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Genre | Horror[1] |
Novel | |
Written by | Otsuichi |
Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
English publisher | |
Published | May 30, 2003 |
Manga | |
Written by | Otsu-ichi |
Illustrated by | Kendi Oiwa |
Published by | Kadokawa Comics |
English publisher | |
Demographic | Seinen |
Published | 2004 |
Feature films | |
GOTH (ゴス, Gosu) is a Japanese horror novel written by Otsuichi about two high school students fascinated by murder. The novel won the Honkaku Mystery Award in 2003.[2] It was adapted into a manga by Kendi Oiwa. In October 2008, they were published in Japan by Kadokawa. Following this, they were published in English by Tokyopop in September, 2008. In 2008, the novel was adapted into a film of the same title directed by Gen Takahashi. The manga and novel was rereleased in North America by VIZ Media in August 2015. The stories were originally published in a single hardcover edition and then later published in the form of two paperback books.