Kanto Otsuki is a Japanese manga artist who received the runner-up prize in the general division of the 73rd Tetsuya Chiba Award. He worked on “I-Turn,” a manga adaptation of the novel by Tetsuzo Fukuzawa. His representative work, “Unmet: Aru Nōgekai no Nikki,” is a medical manga written by former neurosurgeon Yuzuru Kojika and illustrated by Otsuki. Through individual clinical cases, it portrays patients who have lost language, memory, or physical abilities because of brain disorders and accidents, as well as the medical professionals who help them rebuild their lives. The manga was adapted into a television drama in 2024, with the story centered on Miyabi Kawauchi, a neurosurgeon living with a severe memory disorder.
