Yasutaka Nagai

Who is Yasutaka Nagai?

Baku Nagai, bettern known by the pen name Yasutaka Nagai, is a Japanese novelist, manga author and scenario writer. He is one of the four brothers of manga artist Go Nagai.

In 1969 he was a candidate for the Edogawa Rampo Award for his novel Baptism of Blood, being Seiichi Morimura the winner of that year, but he abandoned his activities as a writer, for a time, with the establishment of Dynamic Production. He would re-debut as a writer in 1981 with Shin Devilman.

He has also worked with his brother and Ken Ishikawa in several manga such as Maboroshi Panty, Haru Ichiban and Shinrei Tantei Occult Dan, among others.