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Hotta Junji

Author, manga writer. Graduate of Sophia University. Author of Boku to tsundere to Haidegā verushion adoresansu (Me, the Tsundere Character, and Heidegger: Version Adolescence), and chief scenario writer for Manga de wakaru: Tsuma no torisetsu (Understanding Through Manga: An Instruction Manual to Wives). Now serializing Manga de wakaru: Motto shiawase ni hatarakō (Understanding Through Manga: Let’s Work Happier). Editor of popular works like Seikyō no Shiraishi-san (Shiraishi from the Co-op). Member of the Japan Cartoonists Association.

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